等找着徐萌父女再说
“Let's wait till we find Xu Meng and her father.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's not the time to retrieve the net yet.”
等 找着 徐萌父女 再说
“Let's wait till we find Xu Meng and her father.”
别找了
“Stop searching.”
“Finding them is our only priority right now; everything else can wait.”
Using '再说' (talk about it later) is a polite and firm Chinese conversational device to shelve discussions without sparking immediate conflict.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wait until ... before deciding/discussing
A highly practical grammatical frame used to defer a decision until a specific condition has occurred.
to close the net (make arrests)
Metaphorical police or investigative term referring to the final phase of rounding up suspects.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I owe Xu Meng and her dad the truth.”
“When did you run into Xu Meng again?”
“I… I don't even know Xu Meng and her father.”
“- Aren't they Xu Meng and her father? - Are they?”
“then how did Xu Meng and her father die?”
“to get rid of Xu Meng and her father. He may not know the law, but I do. I couldn't possibly do what he asked…”