但是姚老先生 不需要有人给他惩恶扬善
“But Mr. Yao didn't need someone to punish wrongdoing”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I always stuck to my principles and never compromised.”
但是姚老先生 不需要 有人 给他 惩恶扬善
“But Mr. Yao didn't need someone to punish wrongdoing”
不需要有人给他明辨是非
“or determine right from wrong.”
“Stop playing the hero; that is not what our client actually hired or asked us to do.”
In contemporary Chinese professional ethics, doing one's specific job pragmatically often takes precedence over intrusive moral crusading.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to punish evil and promote good
Often used hyperbolically or critically in modern contexts to describe someone acting like an unsolicited moral vigilante.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Yao, listen to me.”
“Yao actually sent an undercover agent.”
“I'm worried the meeting with Mr. Yao's family”
“I could tell from Yao's look”
“that Yao Wenxiu is not a good man.”
“Yao, tell me, what have I become?”