既然你这么直接 那我也直接问你
“You're being blunt. So I'll be blunt too.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你才是我的老板啊
“but you're my boss.”
既然 你 这么直接 那我也 直接问你
“You're being blunt. So I'll be blunt too.”
你觉得赵玫
“In your opinion, if Zhao Mei”
“Since you chose to speak frankly, I am not going to sugarcoat my question either.”
Chinese workplace communication often defaults to indirect politeness; framing a turn with 'since you are direct' grants explicit social permission to bypass etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since... then I will also...
A classic correlative structure used to reciprocate the interlocutor's communicative attitude or action.
ask you directly / be upfront with you
Signals that the speaker is bypassing diplomatic pleasantries to address the core issue.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Then I think his situation... Let me put it bluntly.”
“I'll get straight to the point with my questions.”