总得给自己留条后路
“She had to leave herself a way out.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可她不是傻子
“But she's not a fool.”
总得 给自己 留条后路
“She had to leave herself a way out.”
是吧
“Right?”
“I cannot risk putting all my eggs in one basket, so I have to protect myself first.”
Rooted in traditional strategic wisdom, keeping a fallback option is culturally seen as essential prudence rather than cowardice when dealing with uncertain relationships or ventures.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
leave a way out; keep an escape route open
A very common idiom used when keeping backup plans or avoiding burning bridges in high-risk situations.
must; have to at least
Used to express an unavoidable minimum requirement or logical necessity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I really need a backup plan.”
“If you're smart, you'd leave yourself an escape route now.”
“you would definitely leave a safe zone for yourself,”
“I should have a backup plan. Who knows what his family's like?”
“Don't burn your bridges.”
“(before doing this.)”
“So we must keep an escape route open.”
“Have we ever given ourselves an escape route?”
“It appears to give you a way out,”