这行里头水可够深的呀
“The waters run really deep in this business.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
起来 都起来
“Get up, all of you!”
这行里头水可够深的呀
“The waters run really deep in this business.”
“I heard that guy got scammed out of over 300,000.”
“You have no idea how crooked this business is; an outsider can easily get wiped out.”
In Chinese culture, waters that are 'deep' conceal unknown currents and perils; describing an industry as having 'deep water' is a standard warning against naive involvement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
deep waters; treacherous and full of hidden traps
A pervasive Chinese metaphor for industries or situations that appear simple but hide immense fraud, complexity, and risk.
inside this trade; within this industry
A common spoken way to delimit context to a particular professional field or gray market.
Softens the assertion while adding emotional emphasis and a sigh-like resonance to the observation.
