可以被牺牲的棋子
“you could sacrifice.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可以 被 牺牲 的 棋子
“you could sacrifice.”
“You completely betrayed my trust and treated me like disposable trash.”
Chinese political drama often centers around the tension between genuine loyalty and the cold reality of being a disposable pawn in grand power struggles.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
chess piece; pawn (metaphor)
Extensively used metaphorically in spoken and written Chinese to refer to someone manipulated by powerful forces.
to sacrifice; to be discarded
Can be used as a verb or noun for giving up something valuable or treating people as disposable casualties.