毛手毛脚的 对 对不起许主任 是我不小心
“You're so careless today. Sorry, Ms. Xu. I was careless.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小冯怎么回事啊
“Feng, what's wrong?”
毛手毛脚 的 对 对不起 许 主任 是我 不小心
“You're so careless today. Sorry, Ms. Xu. I was careless.”
行了行了去忙吧
“Alright now. You may resume your work.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Lower-ranking staff in hierarchical Chinese organizations immediately shoulder full blame and self-criticize to mollify superiors and prevent workplace reprimands.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
clumsy / careless / butterfingered
Used as self-reproach or mild criticism when someone drops things or acts clumsily due to haste.
sorry / I apologize
Standard apology, here stammered out of panic.
it was my carelessness
A polite and direct formula to take personal responsibility for a mishap.
Functions as a nominalizer/descriptor asserting an evaluative characterization of oneself.
