还需要看别人的眼色吗
“do you still need someone else's approval?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你提个自己人
“To promote one of your own,”
还需要 看别人的眼色 吗
“do you still need someone else's approval?”
再说了
“Besides,”
“Promote your own person, and you will finally call the shots without worrying what others think.”
In Chinese hierarchical culture, being sensitive to a superior's nonverbal cues is essential for survival, while gaining power frees an individual from this burden.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to read someone's cues; to walk on eggshells around someone
A very common idiom used when someone has to constantly cater to superiors or please other people out of subservience.
Transforms the statement into a rhetorical question implying an obvious negative answer.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Could you stop looking at me like that?”
“And the way she looked at people was different.”
“we won't have to be submissive”