费尽心机
“(you went to great lengths)”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你多年来
“(For years,)”
费尽心机
“(you went to great lengths)”
经营一副
“(to craft the image)”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Criticizing someone for plotting excessively highlights a distrust of insincerity and hidden malice behind a polite exterior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to exhaust every mental effort; to rack one's brains plotting
A four-character idiom with an inherently negative connotation, used to describe devious or manipulative plotting.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I went to great lengths”
“I've spent years carefully working toward this!”
“I have spared no effort and devoted my all.”
“he has done everything,”
“I've exhausted every effort just to survive.”
“conniving”
“Pushing your brain too hard”
“I used every scheme imaginable”
“All your scheming,”