不是费尽心思地修饰假话
“carefully crafting lies,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我认为的圆滑
“My idea of being diplomatic isn't”
不是 费尽心思 地修饰 假话
“carefully crafting lies,”
而是
“but rather”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
While 'yuanhua' (tactfulness/smoothness) often carries negative connotations of being deceitful or slick, the speaker is actively attempting to give it an ethical definition.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to rack one's brains / to exhaust all mental effort
Used to describe expending tremendous mental energy, often with a critical or negative undertone.
to embellish or sugarcoat lies
A formal and evocative phrase describing deceptive or manipulative rhetoric.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“that I had to put on a brave face.”
“Guess what? All of it was fake.”
“It really is fake.”
“Don't put it so grandly.”
“We will never brush it off.”
“Stop acting.”