于情于理 他们都应该分你一间房子
“by any standard, they should allocate you a room.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你看啊 你是因为 救江棉一厂的职工受的伤
“See, since you were injured saving one of their employees,”
于情于理 他们都 应该 分你一间房子
“by any standard, they should allocate you a room.”
我这就给许主任打电话
“I'll call Ms. Xu now.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese dispute resolution relies on balancing 'qing' (human sentiment/empathy) and 'li' (objective reason/rules); satisfying both makes an argument indisputable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
by both emotion and reason / on moral and logical grounds
A high-frequency four-character idiom used to appeal to both sympathy and rational fairness when arguing an entitlement.
to allocate a room/apartment
A historical welfare-housing term referring to state-assigned housing from a work unit (danwei).
