你不会怀疑 我跟这件事情有瓜葛吧
“you don't suspect I'm involved in this, do you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
廖副总裁
“Ms. Liao,”
你 不会 怀疑 我跟这件事情 有瓜葛 吧
“you don't suspect I'm involved in this, do you?”
那倒不是
“Not at all.”
“Are you seriously pointing the finger at me? You better not be.”
In corporate politics, framing a suspected accusation as an absurd possibility gives the other party a smooth way to deny suspicion while saving face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely you don't... right?
A common rhetorical pattern used to seek reassurance or preemptively challenge an unfavorable assumption.
to be entangled with / to be implicated in
Used in formal or informal contexts to denote suspicious connections or involvement in complications.
Softens the inquiry into a leading question, soliciting confirmation from the listener.