别说第三方 第四方 第八方都没用 白及
“Let alone a third party, even a fourth or eighth party won't help. Bai Ji.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Finding a testing agency won't solve the problem now.”
别说 第三方 第四方 第八方 都没用 白及
“Let alone a third party, even a fourth or eighth party won't help. Bai Ji.”
“Save it. What are you doing?”
“Stop deceiving yourself with meaningless procedures—we are completely out of options.”
Chinese speakers often playfully or angrily escalate numbers beyond standard idiom (extending 'third party' to 'fourth' and 'eighth') to forcefully dismiss a premise as absurd.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not to mention / let alone
Commonly initiates an escalation to show that if one thing fails, even more extreme versions are futile.
none of it works / completely useless
Used to flatly dismiss an entire category of proposed actions or solutions as ineffective.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“do I really have to sacrifice Bai Ji,”
“Bai Ji! Bai Ji! If you dare treat Shao badly... What?”
“If Bai Ji really goes that far...”
“It's just about Bai Ji, and I'm really sorry to trouble you again.”
“I had a fight with Bai Ji.”
“No way. Bai Ji, listen...”