冯董 有事儿直说吧 别绕了
“Mr. Feng, just say what you want. Stop beating around the bush.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
坐一个大办公室要强
“sitting in a big office.”
冯董 有事儿直说 吧 别绕了
“Mr. Feng, just say what you want. Stop beating around the bush.”
“Xinhai is indeed mining privately.”
“Cut the corporate nonsense and tell me what you actually want.”
While business communication in China often relies on polite circumlocution, explicitly requesting someone to 'stop winding' signals that the stakes are too high for standard niceties.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
be direct; get straight to the point
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to prompt someone to drop pretexts and state their true objective.
stop beating around the bush
A colloquial imperative used when the listener is rambling or intentionally avoiding the core subject.
Softens an imperative statement into an urge or firm suggestion.
Used with '别' to command the cessation of an ongoing action (stop beating around the bush).
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It seems that you still don't know me,”
“Feng's notices are getting more and more ridiculous.”
“Feng, you mustn't spout such nonsense.”
“With Mr. Feng's relationship with Mayor Wang, why are you”
“Feng, don't give yourself too much emotional burden.”
“If you don't need anything else, I'll attend to other matters.”