赖着不走 跟他打官司
“Squat there? Sue them?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“not yours. If they ever want you out, what then?”
赖着不走 跟他 打官司
“Squat there? Sue them?”
多难看
“It gets ugly.”
“I'm not going to let them kick me out easily; I will fight dirty if I have to.”
Acting 'lai' (赖) represents an informal, often desperate survival tactic in civil disputes where weaker parties rely on obstruction rather than formal legal leverage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to stubbornly refuse to leave; to squat
Carries a pejorative or self-deprecating connotation indicating shamelessly clinging to a place.
to engage in a lawsuit / take someone to court
The standard colloquial term for litigation in everyday spoken Chinese.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If she refuses to leave,”
“He refuses to leave. But you can kick him out.”
“Someone there? I was worried you might not leave. What is it?”
“If you keep loitering here, I'll tell him.”
“Even if you sue us, you won't get this much. Get lost.”
“I'm not going. My dad will beat the hell out of me. If he hits you, I'll stop—”