大案刚刚完结 哪有什么紧要公务啊
“The major case is done. What urgent official duties could there be?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I won't. I still have official duties.”
大案 刚刚完结 哪有什么 紧要公务啊
“The major case is done. What urgent official duties could there be?”
殿下 我刚刚在同僚面前夸下海口
“Your Highness, I just boasted in front of all of them,”
“Stop making excuses, you have no real work to do.”
While declining invitations using busy work schedules is a standard face-saving tactic in Chinese culture, close acquaintances or superiors often deliberately pierce the excuse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to boast; to make big promises
An idiom used to describe overpromising or bragging before knowing the full outcome.
there is no such thing as; where would there be
A rhetorical device used to forcefully reject an interlocutor's statement or excuse.
Softens the rhetorical question into an exasperated conversational push.
