你把我这个警察 当摆设了
“You think I am a useless police officer?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们不会打阿喜吧
“won't hit Xi, will they?”
你把我 这个 警察 当摆设 了
“You think I am a useless police officer?”
说说吧
“Talk.”
“I am right here in uniform; nobody is going to beat anyone under my watch.”
Calling oneself or something a 'baishe' highlights uselessness; here, the officer uses it rhetorically to remind the citizen of institutional protection and authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat as a decoration / mere ornament
An idiomatic metaphor used to complain that someone is ignoring one's authority, capability, or presence.
to treat me as; to view me as
Common disposal pattern used to express how one is being perceived or treated by others.
Marks the completed realization of an unacceptable state or attitude in a rhetorical accusation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and I'll let your Officer Zhou go. I promise. I swear.”
“As a policeman, I feel as if I'm just a decoration.”
“Do you take the police for fools? Chief Qiao.”