她要是万一追查下来 咱们也不好交代
“and starts investigating, we'll have a hard time explaining it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and Miss Dong finds out later”
她 要是 万一 追查下来 咱们 也不 好交代
“and starts investigating, we'll have a hard time explaining it.”
好吧
“Okay?”
“Don't do anything reckless; if she finds out, we are both going to take the blame.”
The term '交代' (jiaodai) implies moral and administrative accountability to a boss or authority figure in collective work environments.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
just in case; if by any chance
Use before an undesirable conditional clause to express contingency planning.
hard to account for; difficult to explain oneself
A very common workplace idiom used when one might fail to meet responsibilities to superiors or peers.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If they really find something, how will we explain that to the Duke?”
“afraid of being investigated, so you kidnap men to make up the numbers.”