这才避免了一场灾祸呀
“or it would have been a disaster.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's fortunate you arrived in time,”
这才避免了一场灾祸呀
“or it would have been a disaster.”
“We were completely saved by your superiors, so please handle our matter favorably.”
Exaggerating the severity of avoided crises serves to lavish praise on officials and police figures, securing their favor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only then / just in time to
Used to show that an outcome was achieved only under specific prerequisite conditions or timely action.
a disaster / a catastrophe
Formal classifier and noun combination describing serious misfortune or calamitous trouble.
Adds emotional coloring and heightens the sense of genuine relief and exclamation.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“something always goes wrong.”
“we avoided further casualties”
“we avoided further casualties.”