赵市长 干吗跟他过不去呢
“Why does Mayor Zhao pay extra attention to him?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这就是一个普通科员
“He's just an ordinary officer.”
赵市长 干吗 跟他 过不去 呢
“Why does Mayor Zhao pay extra attention to him?”
这样破坏团结的人
“People who sabotage the unity”
“He is just an insignificant nobody, you are lowering yourself by obsessing over him.”
High-ranking officials are culturally expected to display tolerance rather than publicly picking fights with low-level subordinates.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to make things difficult for someone; to target someone
A highly colloquial pattern used to criticize someone for being unnecessarily harsh or antagonistic toward another person.
why; what for
A spoken alternative to 为什么, often carrying an impatient or questioning undertone.
Marks a rhetorical question to highlight the irrationality of the action being discussed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Mayor Zhao applied for its approval in person. That took a long time,”
“Weren't you promoted by Mayor Zhao?”
“I've done a lot for Mayor Zhao,”
“He's been making up a lot of negative materials about Mayor Zhao recently and sent them to the Provincial Commission of Discipline Inspection”
“I can't do it. Mr. Zhao, I'll resign too.”
“Mayor Lin. What's the situation?”