应该被裁掉的人是你 不是我 你胡说 你诽谤
“You should be the one fired, not me! That's slander!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“She's slept with Li Dongming on business trips!”
应该 被裁掉 的人 是你 不是我 你胡说 你诽谤
“You should be the one fired, not me! That's slander!”
“My performance is better than yours!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Allegations of sleeping one's way up in the workplace carry devastating reputational damage in Chinese society, provoking immediate, explosive counter-defenses.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to talk nonsense; total rubbish
A blunt, confrontational retort used when angrily rejecting a false statement.
to slander; to defame
A serious legalistic term used even in daily speech when accusing someone of malicious lying.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm the one whose part was cut.”
“Yet they fired me! That's because of you!”
“Don't laugh. Were you really laid off?”
“How could they lay you off?”
“She'll likely be laid off soon. Why?”
“She'll probably be laid off. Why?”