睁一只眼闭一只眼 对啊 你非得让我 说那么清楚
“Turning a blind eye. You have to make me spell it out?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I got it. Turning a blind eye.”
睁一只眼闭一只眼 对啊 你 非得让 我 说那么清楚
“Turning a blind eye. You have to make me spell it out?”
不是 我这 你回头跟老解说
“But I... Go back and tell Xie.”
“You know what to do without forcing me to say it out loud and incriminate myself.”
In Chinese bureaucratic and interpersonal dynamics, sensitive compromises are expected to be understood intuitively rather than voiced plainly, which preserves plausible deniability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
turn a blind eye; overlook something deliberately
A common idiomatic phrase used when someone tolerates minor rule-breaking.
insist on; stubbornly must
Used to express frustration when another person unnecessarily pushes for an action.
Affirms the interlocutor's previous statement with a mildly emphatic tone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Turn a blind eye.”
“turned a blind eye and let it go.”
“turned a blind eye and let it go. But if you keep being a thug,”
“also turn a blind eye to this.”
“I would simply turn a blind eye”
“In the blink of an eye, all those years just passed by.”