不能让你们白出一趟警
“I can't let you come here for nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
好 走
“Okay, let's go.”
不能 让你们 白出一趟警
“I can't let you come here for nothing.”
你们报的警是吧
“You called the police, right?”
“Since the police are already here, we must make sure someone is held accountable.”
In Chinese civic interactions, citizens often express courteous consideration for public servants' wasted effort, sometimes using it rhetorically to force an intervention.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
dispatch police; respond to a call
Specific institutional verb compound denoting police officers mobilizing for an on-scene call.
go out in vain; make an empty trip
The adverb '白' precedes verbs to indicate futile or unrewarded exertion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“♪ That never see an end ♪ I couldn't let him put me through all that last night for nothing.”
“Don't let him cause trouble.”
“Nothing must happen to you again.”
“If we couldn't prove your innocence, we wouldn't have released you.”
“If I should come here as a policeman, it would be a lot faster.”
“I shouldn't have let her get slapped.”