前边你拖延逃避也就算了
“- You dragged your feet before, fine, - Me...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I really don't understand what you're thinking.”
前边你拖延 逃避 也就算了
“- You dragged your feet before, fine, - Me...”
调令都下了
“but the transfer order is already out, and you still didn't tell Lou Yue in person.”
“I tolerated your foot-dragging before, but you cannot hide or stall anymore.”
In Chinese bureaucratic and institutional workplaces, informal delays are quietly tolerated until a formal transfer notice (diaoling) is issued, after which non-compliance becomes a serious breach.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
let it pass; one could overlook it
A pragmatic construction used to concede that a past offense might be tolerated, right before contrasting it with an intolerable present situation.
procrastinating and evading
A four-character verbal collocation criticizing someone's passive, irresponsible handling of duty or conflict.
Emphasizes the pragmatic concession and boundary limit set by the speaker.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I think you are deliberately delaying!”
“or keep stalling and die for it. You choose.”
“It's entirely an excuse to stall and dodge.”
“Don't try to drag this out.”
“You should delay this matter for now.”
“Stop wasting my time.”