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“That's a completely separate issue.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们不为她的将来考虑一下吗
“Aren't you concerned about her future?”
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“That's a completely separate issue.”
这财产分了
“Once the assets are divided,”
“Don't guilt-trip me into merging our legal rights with her future well-being; they are separate issues.”
While Chinese family disputes often mix emotional ties with material obligations, this idiom is the primary linguistic tool to enforce rational boundaries and resist moral manipulation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
business is business; keep separate matters separate
An essential colloquial idiom used to insist that two issues should not be conflated or confused.