高副使真是费心了
“Vice Envoy Gao has truly gone to great trouble.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
却足以致命
“it becomes lethal.”
高副使 真是 费心了
“Vice Envoy Gao has truly gone to great trouble.”
现在想让你活命的人
“Right now, the only person who wants you alive”
“You really went out of your way to orchestrate all this, didn't you?”
In formal Chinese, deep hostility or suspicion is frequently masked behind ultra-polite honorifics and formulas like 费心 to maintain decorum while delivering a warning.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
taken great trouble / gone out of one's way
A polite formula thanking someone for their effort, but easily adapted for sarcastic or barbed undertones in conflict.
Marks completion and adds an assertive finality to the polite acknowledgement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Vice Envoy Gao, you're resourceful indeed.”
“Vice Envoy Gao, have you forgotten”
“do you have anything else to say, Vice Envoy Gao?”
“I suppose you were always relentless in your efforts.”
“If Vice Envoy Gao has something to say, speak plainly.”
“yet Vice Envoy Gao turns the tables,”