要不是我在笃大育种资料上
“If I hadn't been going through Duda's breeding files”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一点都不会挖掘
“You guys don't know how to dig at all”
要不是我 在 笃大育种 资料 上
“If I hadn't been going through Duda's breeding files”
看到她的名字
“And seen her name”
“You completely missed this, and we only know about it because I was paying attention.”
In Chinese workplaces, using 'if not for me...' allows a speaker to subtly showcase their thoroughness and value without sounding overly boastful.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it were not for; were it not that
A common colloquial structure used to introduce a counterfactual premise that averted a negative outcome or revealed the truth.