等会儿要审肇事司机 你跟他说晚点再开
“I need to interrogate the hit-and-run driver later. Tell him to postpone it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Let's investigate in this direction first. Okay, got it. Bai, it's meeting time.”
等会儿 要审肇事司机 你 跟他说 晚点再开
“I need to interrogate the hit-and-run driver later. Tell him to postpone it.”
“It's not Captain Xie calling the meeting. It's the Chief calling a task force meeting.”
“Interrogating the suspect is more urgent; make sure they push that meeting back.”
Frontline investigators often push back against administrative meetings to capitalize on the golden window for interrogating key suspects.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in a little while; later
A very common colloquial time adverbial in Northern Mandarin indicating immediate future action.
the driver responsible for an accident / hit-and-run driver
Standard legal and news term referring to the driver who caused a traffic incident.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't jump to conclusions. I'll contact the Traffic Police”
“Well... It's late. We shouldn't keep the driver waiting, right?”
“He drove too fast.”
“who's driving tomorrow, you or me? Me.”
“and see if we can track down that hit-and-run driver.”
“The driver who caused the accident should've been sentenced, right?”