刚大学毕业 这要被抓进去 一辈子就毁了
“just graduated from college. If he gets caught, his life is ruined.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
您能不能帮我跟周队 求求情 他还是个孩子
“Could you put in a word with Captain Zhou for me? He's still a kid,”
刚 大学毕业 这要 被抓进去 一辈子就毁了
“just graduated from college. If he gets caught, his life is ruined.”
“Are you crazy, Zhao Ping? You know what Zhou Chuan is like!”
“Please give him a second chance, he is too young to have a criminal record.”
In China, a criminal record leaves an indelible mark that legally bans someone and often their children from civil service and many careers, making 'getting locked up' genuinely life-ruining.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to graduate from college
Used here to frame the person as an educated young person just starting adult life.
to be arrested and imprisoned
A colloquial way to refer to being locked up or taken into custody.
one's entire life is ruined
A hyperbolic yet common idiom to describe irreversible damage to someone's future.
Indicates the realized disastrous state or inevitability of a ruined future.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“if I get caught, you're going down too.”
“If he goes to prison, it's really over— the whole family will be destroyed!”
“How many fresh graduates know the rules?”
“I mentioned a student. Remember how she ended up working in”
“He was a fresh graduate. What did he know?”
“He finally got into university, but couldn't find a job after graduation.”