要不是省里有人保着我 这次麻烦就大了
“If there weren't someone protecting me in provincial authorities, I would be in a big trouble.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
口头警告有什么用啊 该上手段就得上手段
“What's the use of a verbal warning? You have to resort to something harsh.”
要不是 省里 有人保 着我 这次 麻烦就大了
“If there weren't someone protecting me in provincial authorities, I would be in a big trouble.”
是不是这一次
“In Tan Siyan's accusation letter,”
“I barely got away with this thanks to my powerful backer, so do not underestimate how close we were to disaster.”
Refers to relying on higher-level administrative or political patrons to shield oneself from legal or disciplinary consequences.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it were not for
A common hypothetical connective used to introduce a past condition that averted disaster.
the trouble would have been enormous
A standard spoken idiom used to emphasize how close someone came to a major crisis.
Marks a completed change of state within the hypothetical consequence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And it's a provincial capital newspaper. We don't want to cause you trouble.”
“If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have secured it.”