滨海路对于你而言 可有可无 如果你只考虑
“Binhai Road is nonessential for you. If you only consider your own interests,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
牌子都已经打出去了
“The brand is already established.”
滨海路对于你而言 可有可无 如果你只考虑
“Binhai Road is nonessential for you. If you only consider your own interests,”
自己的利益
“If you only consider your own interests,”
“You don't care about the bigger picture because you are only looking out for yourself.”
Framing an opponent's stance as exclusively focused on 'personal interest' (自私利益) is a standard rhetorical strategy to seize the moral high ground in Chinese disputes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as far as ... is concerned; to ...
A formal and structured syntactic frame used to state perspectives or subjective values.
dispensable; negligible; immaterial
A very useful four-character idiom describing something that makes little difference whether it exists or not.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the Binhai Road issue isn't settled.”
“We want Binhai Road, right? - Yes! - Yes! Calm down!”
“the first to pay will get Binhai Road! Listen, Binhai Road is reserved for county-level cadres.”
“I don't want to make Binhai Road's things worse. So before we go in, I'd like an agreement on three things.”
“building another road just like Binhai Road? Yes! And preferably, right next to it.”
“I care too much about Binhai Road. Arrest just me, Mr. Zheng!”