但如果让他回去 就是白折腾一场
“But sending him back home would have been a wasted trip.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
姚老先生的情况 当时看起来确实不宜开庭
“on the surface, Mr. Yao's condition didn't seem fit for a hearing.”
但如果让他 回去 就是 白折腾 一场
“But sending him back home would have been a wasted trip.”
而且小沈当庭询问了 姚老先生的意见
“Besides, Shen asked for Mr. Yao's agreement.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese institutional culture, sparing an elderly person the physical exhaustion of repeated travel often weighs heavily against strict procedural formalities.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a complete waste of effort; going through pointless trouble
A highly colloquial idiom used when an elaborate or tiring process ends up yielding zero results.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“(He wouldn't come back) (because he was afraid you'd have nowhere to live.)”
“He refused to come back because he was afraid you might have no place to stay after his return.”
“we should let him come back?”
“I'll bring him over to have some when he goes back.”
“He didn't plan on letting me return alive.”
“If you don't go back, you won't be allowed back at all.”