还反而把我架在火上反复炙烤
“but puts me on the hot seat repeatedly.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他非但不拉拢我
“Yet he not only doesn't try to win me over,”
还反而把我架在火上反复炙烤
“but puts me on the hot seat repeatedly.”
“He deliberately put me on the hot seat to watch me squirm.”
In Chinese bureaucratic intrigue, placing someone 'on the fire' refers to forcing an official into public focus to shoulder risk and blame.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
put someone on the hot seat; roast someone over fire
A metaphor for subjecting someone to extreme pressure, public scrutiny, or impossible dilemmas.
repeatedly; over and over
Used before a verb to emphasize tedious, agonizing, or relentless repetition.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Since they're putting each other over the fire,”
“to suffer from the smoke and fire.”
“and throwing his weight around my turf?”
“The one that was burned was a corpse to begin with.”
“and destroy the whole lot.”
“to watch himself being burned alive.”