撇开我们酒店的损失不谈
“Setting aside our hotel's losses,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
而且两败俱伤
“And both sides will suffer.”
撇开 我们酒店的损失 不谈
“Setting aside our hotel's losses,”
在这段时间内
“during this time,”
“Our financial loss is bad enough, but there is an even bigger disaster at hand.”
Chinese business negotiations frequently bracket severe tangible damage (like direct monetary loss) to dramatically heighten the stakes of secondary, systemic consequences.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
setting aside...; leaving aside for the moment
A formal discourse connector used to bracket one major point to emphasize an even more crucial subsequent point.
the hotel's losses
Standard business vocabulary referring to institutional financial or material damages.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“but in reality, we lost nothing.”
“Isn't everyone in the hotel caring about it?”
“Our hotel absolutely cannot take this lightly.”
“Now they want to shift the blame to our hotel.”
“We suffered a huge loss this time.”
“from the hotel's perspective.”