这件事情 其他城市都有先例 罚款的罚款
“Other cities have precedents for this. Fines were levied. People were arrested.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I'm not opposing you. I'm helping you.”
这件事情 其他城市都有 先例 罚款的罚款
“Other cities have precedents for this. Fines were levied. People were arrested.”
被抓的被抓 你还没意识到 这件事情的严重性吗
“Fines were levied. People were arrested. Haven't you realized the seriousness of this?”
“You are courting disaster and dragging us down; stop before authorities crack down on us.”
In Chinese administrative and institutional settings, pointing to what happened in other regions or units is a powerful rhetorical tool to compel compliance without sounding like a personal attack.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
there is precedent / precedents exist
Used when justifying an action or issuing a warning based on past historical or institutional examples.
some were fined and others were also fined
A colloquial reduplicative structure indicating that the mentioned consequence happened repeatedly across various parties.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it won't be as simple as paying a fine.”
“At a time like this? Still fining? Let's go.”
“The police have already fined us. What more do you want?”
“If there is a punishment, we take it together.”
“How much is the fine?”
“Didn't the last one get fined 100 yuan?”