爸说是重新装修啊 告诉你还得了
“My dad said it was to be refurbished! Imagine if you'd been told?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The noodle restaurant closed because of Zhao Huaguang?”
爸 说是 重新 装修 啊 告诉你 还得了
“My dad said it was to be refurbished! Imagine if you'd been told?”
“You would have tried to make him pay for it. You knew about it too?”
“Dad lied for a good reason; you know you would have lost your temper and made things way worse if you knew.”
In Chinese households, parents and close family members often conceal major crises from emotional or younger members to protect them from rash decisions or grief.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be behind the mischief / to pull dirty tricks
A common colloquial idiom used to attribute a problem or foul play to someone's secret scheming.
all hell would break loose / would be intolerable
A powerful rhetorical expression expressing that an action or consequence would be completely disastrous or unacceptable.
Softens the explanation while inviting understanding of the father's difficult decision.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I redecorated it. It'll be open in two days.”
“Why don't you spend some money renovating the place, like installing an elevator?”
“How is your dad doing?”
“and the house is renovated...”
“Look at me, a while ago work wasn't going well for me.”
“Looks like your dad misjudged again.”