而要反咬一口的话
“and choose to bite the hand that feeds you,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
如果您辜负了酒店一番好意
“if you fail to appreciate the hotel's good intentions”
而要 反咬一口 的话
“and choose to bite the hand that feeds you,”
那这个官司必定要打得旷日持久
“then this lawsuit is bound to be a protracted one.”
“If you try to turn this on us, you will regret dragging us both into court.”
Framing an opponent's litigation as 'biting back' appeals to moral indignation, casting the speaker as merciful and the listener as ungrateful.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bite back; make a countercharge against a benefactor
A strong idiomatic phrase used to accuse someone of ungratefulness or retaliating unfairly against an olive branch.
if; in case
Placed at the end of a clause to introduce a conditional hypothesis in both spoken and semi-formal Chinese.
Combined with '如果/要' to mark the end of a conditional hypothesis.
