看似扬汤止沸
“Instead of just treating the symptoms,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我懂了
“I get it.”
看似 扬汤止沸
“Instead of just treating the symptoms,”
其实釜底抽薪 对吧
“he went for the root cause, right?”
“Don't be fooled by how basic or temporary this looks—there is a far smarter strategy at play.”
Chinese strategic discourse frequently contrasts 'stirring boiling water' (palliative measure) with 'removing firewood from under the cauldron' (solving the root cause) to evaluate systemic solutions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat symptoms rather than the root cause / a stopgap measure
A literary idiom literally meaning 'stirring boiling soup to stop it bubbling'; used metaphorically for ineffective, superficial solutions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to silence the gossip?”
“once we wed.”
“This is turning water into ice?”
“(But anger was futile.)”
“the chicken soup would boil over and put out the fire?”
“This is causing a huge stir.”