我是被天火开了
“I was sacked by Sky Fire.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
裴总去天火原来是去挖人了
“So, Mr. Pei, you went there to poach their talents, huh?”
我是 被天火 开了
“I was sacked by Sky Fire.”
还好裴总好心 肯收留我 带我来金川
“But luckily, Mr. Pei is a kind person. He's willing to take me in. He brought me here.”
“Don't flatter me; I didn't get headhunted, I got sacked.”
Downplaying one's own talent or refuting praise about being headhunted avoids arrogance and shows humility in workplace culture.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
got fired by...
A highly colloquial spoken idiom meaning to be dismissed or sacked by an employer.
Marks a completed event and the realization of a new, irreversible situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you uncovered the truth behind the wildfire.”
“(Sky Fire has truly spared no expenses this time.)”
“Sky Fire isn't that big of a deal.”
“She suffered a lot when she worked at Sky Fire at the lowest level,”
“He was genuinely working there.”
“Instead of being tormented in Sky Fire and getting my wage docked,”