千防万防防着火灾
“I took every precaution against a fire,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也好
“All right.”
千防万防 防着火灾
“I took every precaution against a fire,”
“but I never expected the accident to be someone falling.”
“We obsessed over preventing one disaster, yet catastrophe struck from a completely different angle.”
Reflects the common cultural sentiment that human calculations and exhaustive precautions often cannot outmaneuver unpredictable twists of fate.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
taking every possible precaution / guarding against everything
A vivid four-character construction used to stress that endless effort was made to guard against a specific danger.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We still failed to avoid this.”
“it's windproof, cold-proof, and bug-proof.”
“Fire. Put it out.”
“You're guarding against me like this?”
“he was afraid the fire would burn the house down and everything would be lost.”
“they guard against me like thiefs all day!”