供电局里风言风语
“there were rumors in the Power Supply Bureau.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我怕 你怕什么 你是我的人 你怕什么 那段时间
“I'm afraid... What are you afraid of? You're in my team. What are you afraid of? During that time,”
供电局 里 风言风语
“there were rumors in the Power Supply Bureau.”
倒是杨健
“But Yang Jian”
“Don't blame me for being scared—everyone at work was talking behind my back and waiting for me to fall.”
Within traditional state-owned units (danwei), public reputation and informal gossip ('fengyan fengyu') wield immense coercive power over individuals' career survival and personal well-being.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Power Supply Bureau
A common state-owned institutional workplace setting in Chinese dramas.
idle gossip; malicious rumors; groundless slander
A four-character idiom describing rumors and speculative chatter circulating through an organization.
Postposition marking the location within an institution, grounding the rumor mill to that specific workplace environment.
