他们在我的刹车上做了手脚 我也差点死了
“They tampered with my brakes. I almost died, too!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“about what happened to Jin. But I really didn't know they would kidnap her.”
他们在我的刹车上 做了手脚 我也 差点死 了
“They tampered with my brakes. I almost died, too!”
你知道我没有直接的证据
“You know I have no direct evidence,”
“Stop treating me like the perpetrator; they tried to kill me too.”
In high-stakes conflict resolution, demonstrating that one also suffered grave harm is a standard rhetorical strategy to defuse accusations of conspiracy or betrayal.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to tamper with; to pull dirty tricks on
A very common colloquial idiom meaning to covertly manipulate, rig, or tamper with an object or system.
almost; nearly
Used before a verb phrase to indicate that an undesirable outcome was narrowly avoided.
Marks a change of state or realized potential in the counterfactual statement '差点死了' (almost died).
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And then you'll tell me to quit driving and come back to writing. Did I get it right?”
“It was brake failure. Lies.”
“and made me kill someone with my car, didn't you?”
“had been in my car, the consequence would've been disastrous.”
“If you had hit a car, you should have died.”
“I get it, but since you two have hit the brakes”