就是谭大让我给你打的电话
“He's the one who asked me to call you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谭大知道吗
“Does Chief Tan know?”
就是 谭大 让我 给你打 的 电话
“He's the one who asked me to call you.”
给蒋诚做笔录
“He wants you to question Jiang Cheng.”
“Do not question me; this order came directly from Captain Tan.”
In hierarchical Chinese workplaces and law enforcement, referencing the directive of a department head ('Da' abbreviation for Team Leader/Captain) immediately dissolves procedural skepticism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it is precisely [someone] who told [someone] to...
A cleft-like structure used to emphasize authority or attribution behind an action.
to make a phone call
The standard verb-object collocation for making a call.
Part of the 'shi...de' construction, placing heavy pragmatic focus on the agent who issued the order.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Okay, I got it. Chief Tan, it's a call from the Provincial Bureau.”
“Who called you then?”
“And those calls weren't even to you but to Ms. Dong.”
“Tang Xiaohu called you on a public phone.”
“just go make a call.”
“Then why did you call me?”