现在就给自己留条后路
“If you're smart, you'd leave yourself an escape route now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
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“If you're smart, you'd leave yourself an escape route now.”
现在 就 给自己留条后路
“If you're smart, you'd leave yourself an escape route now.”
我是你亲舅舅
“I'm your uncle. I wouldn't harm you.”
“Don't ruin your own future by cornering me; protect yourself while you still can.”
In Chinese family dynamics, relatives frequently invoke senior kinship ties to urge practical compromise under pressure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to leave an escape route or backup plan
A very common Chinese idiom used when advising someone not to burn bridges or commit irreversibly.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She had to leave herself a way out.”
“So you're already leaving yourself a way out, huh?”
“This letter appears to offer reassurance, but it is meant to keep you here.”
“You should plan a way out for this.”
“Don't burn your bridges.”
“may still leave room to turn things around.”
“you'll leave a fallback plan for me too,”
“As expected, they had another plan in reserve.”
“(before doing this.)”
“So we must keep an escape route open.”
“Have we ever given ourselves an escape route?”
“The very fact he said it proves he has a contingency plan in place.”
“It appears to give you a way out,”
“I really need a backup plan.”