我要用她 就不得不防
“If I am to work with her, I'd better stay vigilant.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怕是别有用意
“the bride's body.”
我要用 她 就 不得不防
“If I am to work with her, I'd better stay vigilant.”
“What do you take her for, an aide or a foe?”
“I need her skills, but I'm never letting my guard down around her.”
Classical Chinese statecraft emphasizes balancing the employment of talent with perpetual vigilance against their potential disloyalty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot help but; have no choice but to
Use this double negative pattern to express an unavoidable necessity or compelling circumstance.
to guard against; to be wary of
Frequently used in interpersonal politics to describe maintaining defensive suspicion against potential betrayal.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's her! That's her!”
“She's only nice to people she can use.”
“No need. I'll just wait for her here.”
“I think, if she wants to go, just let her. She can't just sit there”
“for insisting on taking her side.”
“How about this? I'll talk to her,”