我之前说你居高临下
“♪ Rushing to ripen before our time ♪ I used to say you were condescending,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也逃避过
“♪ Knowing when to advance or retreat, yet still asleep ♪ and I've run away.”
我 之前说 你 居高临下
“♪ Rushing to ripen before our time ♪ I used to say you were condescending,”
其实现在想想
“but thinking about it now, ♪ Sighing at partings, who meets whom at which crossing ♪”
“I was wrong to call you arrogant, and I want to clear the air.”
Directly bringing up a past accusation against a superior or colleague is a delicate act of vulnerability in Chinese communication, usually done to rebuild mutual trust and restore face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
condescending; looking down from above; patronizing
An idiomatic expression (chengyu) frequently used in modern speech to criticize someone acting haughty or superior toward others.
I previously said that you were...
A useful spoken framework for initiating an apology or revising a past assessment of someone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What did you say to me before?”
“I've told you this before.”
“Who did you say”
“As I have said before,”
“You were pretty cocky earlier.”
“What did I just tell you?”