我这边上上下下
“I've got palms to grease”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
半年太长
“Half a year is too long.”
我 这边 上上下下
“I've got palms to grease”
都得打点呀
“at every level.”
“You cannot rush me; paying off all these people takes time and money.”
Refers to the practice of giving gifts or bribes across an institutional hierarchy to clear bureaucratic hurdles and ensure complicity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
on my side / from my end
A very common conversational framing device used to contrast one's own constraints with the counterpart's demands.
top to bottom / everyone across all levels
Refers to people across an entire organization or social hierarchy.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“stab him here, here, and here.”
“I'll handle things here.”
“I have two rules.”
“We need to open up passages here, here, and here.”