你要体谅组织的难处 许主任
“- Please understand our difficulties. - Ms. Xu,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“We'll take an older unit. That's right. Comrade Fang Muyang.”
你要体谅组织的 难处 许 主任
“- Please understand our difficulties. - Ms. Xu,”
我们已经很体谅您了
“we've already been very understanding.”
“Back off and stop pushing; we cannot meet your impossible demands.”
Invoking 'the organization's difficulties' is a classic rhetorical device in Chinese institutional culture to appeal to collective duty and stifle individual demands.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to empathize with and make allowances for
A formal and polite verb frequently used when asking someone to compromise due to unavoidable constraints.
difficulties or predicament
Commonly invoked in social or institutional negotiation to soften a refusal or explain inability to comply.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now that the notice is out, what will Ms. Xu do?”
“Let's report it to Ms. Xu. Right away.”
“Let me tell you the situation. Since Ms. Xu said”
“to deceive Ms. Xu and the organization? No.”
“And I promised Ms. Xu I would... No.”
“Thank you, Ms. Xu. You're welcome.”