所以他总是找白椿麻烦 我说了他几次
“So, he's always giving him a hard time. I called him out on it a few times,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“but he's stuck managing Mine No. 2.”
所以他总是找白椿 麻烦 我说 了他几次
“So, he's always giving him a hard time. I called him out on it a few times,”
连我也记恨上了
“and now he holds a grudge against me, too.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese spoken discourse, using '说' (to talk/speak) as a euphemism for scolding or admonishing reflects a common indirect way to describe supervisory correction.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to look for trouble / to pick on someone
A highly colloquial pattern: 找 + someone + 麻烦, used to describe deliberate harassment or petty fault-finding.
criticized/reprimanded him a few times
Here '说' functions colloquially as 'to scold', 'to lecture', or 'to reprimand mildly'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Those intending to mess with him can't do anything to him now.”
“♪ It felt like something suddenly lit up my soul ♪ Why do you have to make me come find Bai”
“♪ That never see an end ♪ I couldn't let him put me through all that last night for nothing.”
“Even if everyone knows he's lying, no one wants to get in trouble.”
“I also thought about growing old with him.”
“Just like you said, he was trying to drive a wedge between us.”