你看他现在在这个节骨眼上
“Look, at this critical moment,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他现在在哪 他为什么会给我打电话呢
“Where is he now? Why did he call me?”
你看 他现在 在这 个 节骨眼上
“Look, at this critical moment,”
他家小孩马上就要做手术了
“his kid is about to have surgery.”
“Stop asking unnecessary questions; this is a matter of life and death, so we must act now.”
In Chinese culture, when standard rules or relations hit a roadblock, invoking extreme personal hardship often creates strong moral pressure to bend regular procedures.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at this critical juncture / at this crucial moment
A colloquial northern idiom used when an urgent event or crisis happens at the worst or most pivotal timing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it's another critical moment.”
“is at a critical moment now.”
“red-handed”
“But now I kind of wish he was here.”
“at such a critical moment,”