不是防着你 我怕你把持不住
“I'm not guarding against you. I'm afraid you won't be able to control yourself.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“We're not even applying to the same school. Do you really need to guard against me?”
不是 防着你 我怕你 把持不住
“I'm not guarding against you. I'm afraid you won't be able to control yourself.”
什么意思
“What do you mean?”
“You are the one who might lose your composure, not me.”
In casual Chinese social interactions, teasing the other person about their emotional weakness is a common bantering technique to avoid awkward confrontation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to guard against / to keep on guard against
Used to describe being suspicious or wary of someone's hidden motives.
unable to control oneself / cannot resist temptation
A common colloquial idiom used when someone loses emotional, romantic, or behavioral self-restraint.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You know, the effort you spend guarding against me...”
“He's impossible to defend. Totally impossible.”
“You were not trying to keep me out, were you?”
“[mother] All of this time we've been so worried about you, and afraid that you blamed yourself,”
“I thought we'd guarded against one, and now two more show up.”
“he's been guarding against me in everything.”