基本上编辑和作者 是很难一直在一起的
“Editors and authors rarely stay together for long.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I hope I can stay with you all the time.”
基本上 编辑和 作者 是 很难一直在一起 的
“Editors and authors rarely stay together for long.”
写得太好
“If the writing is too good,”
“I need to keep our relationship professional; we cannot be together.”
Chinese speakers often cite external professional roles or general rules rather than personal feelings to decline intimate advances, saving the petitioner's face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
basically; fundamentally
Used to soften an absolute statement or state a general rule of thumb.
hard to; very difficult to
A polite, indirect way to signal impossibility without saying a harsh 'never'.
Affirms the speaker's statement as an established general truth.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“As an editor, having more authors means more options.”
“Being my managing editor is hard,”
“gave your editor-in-chief a heads-up.”
“instead of saying, after all, you're the original author.”
“then it only proves our authors lack ability, our editors lack ability, and Chenxing lacks ability.”
“I really can't find a better author.”