干吗要给人辞了呀 我说了不合适
“Why fire her? I said she can't work here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我觉得这是好事啊
“This is a good thing.”
干吗要给人辞了 呀 我说 了 不合适
“Why fire her? I said she can't work here.”
她跟我这层关系
“I'm seeing her now.”
“You put me in an awful position by firing someone connected to me after I explicitly told you not to.”
Dismissing someone connected via personal networks disrupts social obligations and costs face for the mediator, making informal ties a major factor in Chinese workplace personnel decisions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why must / why bother to
A frequent colloquial pattern used to question or criticize an unnecessary or inappropriate action.
inappropriate / improper
The standard polite or indirect way in Chinese to reject a plan or express disapproval without harsh judgment.
Softens the blunt rhetorical question while conveying exasperation and urgency.
Marks the change of state and completion of the firing action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She's doing well, yet you're firing her. Why?”
“I didn't do it. You've got the wrong person. If you didn't do it, why did you run?”