人来了 我总不能让人睡马路上吧
“She's already here. I can't let her sleep on the street.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可他现在不在
“But he's not here right now.”
人 来了 我 总不能 让人睡马路上吧
“She's already here. I can't let her sleep on the street.”
“I had no other moral choice, so stop blaming me for skipping procedure.”
When facing bureaucratic delays, lower-level managers often deliberately act first to solve human needs, relying on moral justification to appease superiors later.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot / can hardly be expected to
Used to argue that an alternative option is completely unacceptable or unreasonable.
to sleep rough / to sleep on the streets
A vivid colloquial hyperbole meaning to have nowhere to stay.
Solicits common-sense agreement from the listener to soften defensiveness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He's here. See for yourself. Exactly the type I hate.”
“S-Someone is coming. What should we do?”
“Guards! Guards!”
“Someone's here, Mom. I'll talk to you later.”
“Help! Help!”
“Someone! Come here!”