舍小保大的道理
“Sacrificing the small to save the big”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's not the time to care about loyalty.”
舍小保大 的道理
“Sacrificing the small to save the big”
不需要我来教你吧
“is something you don't need me to teach.”
“You know full well what must be cut loose, so stop hesitating and make the sacrifice.”
In Chinese business and bureaucratic culture, personal loyalty ('讲义气') is often explicitly subordinated to collective survival and broader strategic interests ('大局').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sacrifice the minor interests to protect the major ones
A standard four-character strategic idiom used when making tough choices to minimize overall losses.
underlying principle / logic / reason
Used when appealing to common sense or established universal logic that everyone should already know.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“My apologies for the unsightly display, Colonel.”
“Tell Oshima Hiroshi to stop meddling.”
“Master probably didn't want to make a scene,”
“and Great Tang has recovered.”
“so he can prepare in advance.”
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