这不是讲义气的时候
“It's not the time to care about loyalty.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你不是小孩子了
“You're not a child anymore.”
这不是 讲义气 的时候
“It's not the time to care about loyalty.”
“Be realistic and cut your losses; your naive sense of honor is going to ruin us.”
'Yiqi' (code of brotherhood and loyalty) is highly revered in traditional Chinese peer culture, but in critical or modern dilemmas, it is frequently contested by pragmatic calculations like sacrificing minor parts to protect the whole.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to value loyalty to friends; to be fiercely loyal
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe prioritizing brotherhood or loyalty, often framed negatively if it blinds someone to practical reality.
now is not the time to...
A useful rhetorical frame to stop someone from engaging in counterproductive behavior during an urgent situation.
Modifies the noun phrase '时候' (time) to specify the exact category of time being discussed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Right. Sisterhood is also very important.”
“Some things should be talked through openly.”
“Back at the construction site, people said you were quite loyal.”
“Do you have to be so loyal, Ming?”
“You're not a good friend at all.”
“Yusheng is simply too unreasonable.”