没有关系 这不是重点
“with Meng Ling. That's not the point.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我跟孟灵
“I had nothing to do”
没有关系 这不是重点
“with Meng Ling. That's not the point.”
孟灵说自己手上 掌握了赖正天的把柄
“Meng Ling said she had a hold over Lai Zhengtian.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Directly cutting someone off with 'this is not the point' is blunt in traditional Chinese etiquette, signaling high urgency or professional authority typical in investigative contexts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it doesn't matter; irrelevant
Used here not as a polite 'you're welcome', but as a direct conversational pivot to dismiss trivial remarks.
this is not the point
A crucial conversational tool to steer rambling interlocutors back to the core issue.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“No. That's not why we're here.”
“Usually, you even show concern for strangers when they suffer a little—”
“with Fu Hailian! Why are you doing this?”
“This isn't important. - Just check it out. - The groundwater issue.”