拾柴点火 从来都是建工集团的事
“Building and construction are always the construction group's jobs.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
拾柴点火 从来都是 建工 集团 的事
“Building and construction are always the construction group's jobs.”
“Now, the meat cooked in our kitchen was in someone else's stomach.”
“We did all the dirty work from scratch, and we are not going to let someone else steal the prize.”
In Chinese business culture, setting up relationships and clearing initial hurdles creates a strong ethical claim to the final contract.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
gathering firewood and lighting the flame (doing the foundational work)
Metaphorical phrasing used to describe paving the way or doing the initial hard labor for a venture.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The group is too complicated. I don't want him to get involved in this.”
“The Construction Group won't suffer losses for nothing.”
“But Construction Engineering Group can't always step on the same way like before.”
“Do you really know how Construction Engineering Group is like? Do you know how complex it is in the group? Do you know...”
“the conditions on the paper are basically asking us to work for free!”
“which makes him the largest shareholder in Construction Engineering Group.”