她要早说清楚 也不至于闹成这样
“If she'd said it earlier, it wouldn't be like this.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没有人逼她呀
“No one forced her.”
她要 早说清楚 也不 至于 闹成这样
“If she'd said it earlier, it wouldn't be like this.”
再说了
“Besides,”
“This mess is entirely her fault, not ours.”
Escalating a dispute into a public spectacle causes loss of face for everyone involved, so attributing the fault to poor communication is a common face-saving defense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
make things clear / explain clearly
A very frequent resultative complement structure used to urge or evaluate clarity in communication.
would not go so far as to / not to the extent of
Used to express that an extreme negative outcome could have been easily avoided.
make a big mess like this / turn out into such chaos
A colloquial phrase used when a conflict or incident has escalated out of control.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“tell her not to take things so seriously.”
“if you had said that earlier, it would have been fine.”
“he didn't tell us what we should do. If my sister finds out that we've known it already,”
“who knows whether he'd planned it all along, or if it only happened after his divorce.”