难不成因为昨晚的事
“Is it because of what happened last night?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
什么态度
“What kind of attitude was that?”
难不成 因为昨晚的事
“Is it because of what happened last night?”
“What on earth happened last night? Miss Song,”
“Don't tell me you're still sulking over what went down last night.”
Rather than demanding an apology directly, Chinese speakers often use rhetorical conjectures like '难不成' to test the waters and elicit the real source of someone's displeasure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could it be that; don't tell me that
A highly idiomatic rhetorical marker used to introduce a hypothesis that the speaker finds unexpected, absurd, or unwelcome.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Consider tonight's events as if they never happened.”
“Yes, because it was pouring last night.”
“like nothing happened last night.”
“Something else must have happened.”
“I didn't do anything inappropriate last night, did I?”
“happened last night”