还能让三分厂变得又肥又大
“yet at the same time, he wants to make Factory No. 3 bigger and stronger”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“He wants to get rid of me as the thorn in his side,”
还能 让三分 厂变 得 又 肥 又 大
“yet at the same time, he wants to make Factory No. 3 bigger and stronger”
然后吃掉
“so that he can swallow it.”
“He isn't helping us grow out of kindness; he is fattening us up for the slaughter.”
A common Chinese strategic metaphor where an opponent is intentionally allowed or helped to grow lucrative only to be devoured or appropriated later.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
fat and plump; lucrative and fully expanded
Colloquial metaphor often used for assets or companies primed for acquisition or exploitation.
the Third Branch Factory
Typical organizational naming convention for state-owned enterprise branches.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I saw the factory getting worse and worse.”
“I've heard that your factory is doing well lately. And you're even expanding.”
“More factories mean bigger problems.”
“We need workers to expand the business.”
“There must be something wrong with that factory.”
“there must be something wrong with that factory.”