就这么拖下去 要拖到我们退休吗
“Just keep dragging this out? Drag it out until we retire?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Ignoring 99% of the evidence is gone at the scene? Right?”
就这么 拖下去 要拖到我们退休吗
“Just keep dragging this out? Drag it out until we retire?”
“How do we answer to the family? How do we answer to the people”
“Stop stalling and dodging responsibility; we cannot let this case sit unsolved forever.”
In public office or police work, postponing difficult cases until retirement (拖到退休) is a common trope for bureaucratic evasion, which clashes directly with professional honor and giving answers (交代) to victims' families.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to keep stalling; to drag on
Used with the directional complement '下去' to express prolonging an undesirable situation over time.
just like this; in this manner
Used to express dissatisfaction with an ongoing passive state of affairs.
Forms a sharp rhetorical question that expects a negative answer and registers strong protest.
