现在又说是抹黑了周荣
“Now he says he was smearing Zhou Rong.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他举报的人是周荣
“that the person he reported was Zhou Rong.”
现在又 说是 抹黑 了周荣
“Now he says he was smearing Zhou Rong.”
举报信他还拿回去了
“He also took the report letter back.”
“Something shady is going on; why would he suddenly flip his story and retract the accusations?”
Retracting a formal accusation or claiming one 'slandered' someone usually indicates backstage political deals, pressure from above, or bought silence in corporate/bureaucratic struggles.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to smear / to tarnish someone's reputation
A highly common figurative verb for slander, defamation, or character assassination.
and now [he] claims again that...
Used to highlight exasperating flip-flopping or inconsistent claims by another person.
Marks the completion or realization of the act of smearing/slander.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“♪ Doubt, doubt the doubt ♪ Why didn't Zhou Rong show up?”
“He must be Zhou Rong's man, Uncle!”
“Zhou Rong is really getting desperate.”
“to invite Zhou Rong to the station for questioning?”
“you and Zhou Rong are childhood friends,”
“Zhou Rong can still slip away from us?”