但也不算毁灭性的吧
“But it's not career-ending, is it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但是我相信这件事情 对你在投行的生涯有重大影响
“I believe this incident will have a major impact on your career.”
但 也不 算 毁灭性的 吧
“But it's not career-ending, is it?”
我觉得你完全可以转到投行后台
“I think you could move to a back-office role”
“Please tell me this mistake isn't going to completely ruin my career.”
In competitive Chinese corporate environments like investment banking, admitting fatal failure carries extreme stigma, making people grasp for verbal minimization.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot be considered / not quite
A very useful hedging chunk to soften categorizations or avoid extreme labels.
devastating / destructive
Used as an attributive adjective to describe catastrophic failures or fatal impacts.
Softens the assertion into a tentative question, seeking confirmation or consensus from the listener.
