正是因为你这种人的知情不报
“Because of people like you, who refuse to report what you know,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
包庇和纵容
“for illegal discipline?”
正是因为你 这种人 的 知情不报
“Because of people like you, who refuse to report what you know,”
整个社会伸张正义
“upholding justice”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese moral and legal discourse, '知情不报' treats deliberate bystander silence as moral complicity rather than mere neutrality.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it is precisely because
Used to introduce an emphatic causal reason, often in serious argumentation or rebuke.
knowing the facts but withholding report / failing to report known crimes
A formal idiom used to accuse someone of deliberately concealing vital information or misconduct.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“if anyone withholds information”
“But we can't knowingly stay silent either. If we do that,”
“and failed to report it. She shall therefore receive the same punishment.”
“Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing at the time?”
“supposed to know or not know?”
“If she knows you knew all along and didn't say anything, good luck talking your way out of that one.”