跟上级信口雌黄
“speaking nonsense to a superior.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你还在这儿
“Yet here you are,”
跟上级信口雌黄
“speaking nonsense to a superior.”
我先告辞了
“I will take my leave first.”
“Know your place and shut your mouth before this ruins your career.”
In Chinese institutional culture, directly challenging a superior is a grave breach of etiquette, often framed as moral misconduct rather than a simple difference of opinion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
toward one's superior
Identifies the hierarchy target in organizational contexts.
to talk recklessly; to fabricate nonsense
A formal idiom used to sharply criticize someone for making groundless statements.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“coworkers, or his boss. We'll track that jerk down sooner or later.”
“someone from the higher-ups puts in a word for you,”
“who acts in front of your bosses and colleagues”