他在洋行还怎么做人
“How can he show his face at the foreign firm?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If you do that, where will Yunqi put his face?”
他在洋行还 怎么做人
“How can he show his face at the foreign firm?”
他要是要脸面的话
“If he cared about his face,”
“If you do this, his professional reputation will be totally ruined.”
'Zuoren' (being a person) relies heavily on moral repute and public respect; losing face in one's workplace makes survival in the social circle virtually impossible.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how to maintain one's dignity; how to face others
A heavy rhetorical phrase indicating that someone's standing or face will be too damaged to interact with their peers.
foreign firm; foreign trading company
A historical term (common in late Qing and Republican eras) referring to Western-run commercial trading houses.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and I washed my hands of foreign trade long ago.”
“All the strange cases we've handled in Nanyang lately— turn out they're all caused by people.”
“But what about the passengers who died?”
“How am I supposed to do business?”
“How could you let Ocean destroy the products?”
“I'd be fine being a merchant's wife.”