您二位要是 不相信我的话 您可以去问关部长
“If you don't believe me, ask Minister Guan.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Aren't you a member of the town government? I never wanted to come.”
您二位 要是 不相信我 的话 您可以去问关部长
“If you don't believe me, ask Minister Guan.”
“They came to my home and asked for me.”
“Don't interrogate me; I answer to Minister Guan, so check with him if you doubt me.”
In Chinese bureaucratic culture, citing a superior leader's approval is an effective defensive tactic to silence peers or lower-level interrogators without direct aggression.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the two of you (respectful)
A polite, formal way to address two listeners simultaneously, combining the honorific 您 with the numeral 二位.
if... (in that case)
A standard spoken conditional frame used to present a hypothetical premise.
Marks the preceding clause as a conditional topic, softening the bluntness of the premise.
