建筑师不会拿自己的手开玩笑
“Architects don't mess around with their own hands.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我又没说不去
“I didn't say I wasn't going.”
建筑师 不会拿 自己的 手 开玩笑
“Architects don't mess around with their own hands.”
你知道就好
“Good that you understand.”
“Trust me, I care about my livelihood more than anyone, so back off.”
Invoking one's profession ('an architect wouldn't...') is a common rhetorical strategy in Chinese to defend one's judgment and silence unsolicited advice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to mess around with or jeopardize one's own hands
A variation of the common pattern '拿...开玩笑' (to joke about or take something lightly), used here to emphasize serious self-preservation.
to treat something lightly or put something at risk
Commonly used in negative constructions like '不会拿...开玩笑' to assert seriousness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“No wonder the boss is an architect.”
“♪ Across the ends of the earth, we won't stop ♪ I want to become a great architect”
“I'm back doing architectural design again.”
“that you'd dump the architectural design on someone else.”
“Does she also work in construction? A designer?”
“also call themselves architects? Alright, alright.”