我刚才不是说了吗 最多一个月
“Didn't I say? At most one month.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“So I have to solve it myself.”
我刚才 不是说了吗 最多 一个月
“Didn't I say? At most one month.”
你对我有点信心
“Have a little faith in me.”
“Stop nagging me; I promised I would handle it within a month, so back off.”
Chinese speakers often defend their competence and self-reliance by setting strict self-imposed deadlines when questioned.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Didn't I already say / tell you?
A rhetorical device used in spoken Chinese to express mild irritation when repeating oneself.
at most
Commonly placed before a time period or quantity to set an upper limit.
Forms a rhetorical question highlighting that the fact should already be obvious to the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“One month it is. I'll post it now.”
“But what about a month? A year?”
“It took you a whole month to recall that?”
“I can compare with others for a year in a month.”
“About a month ago,”
“Didn't I tell you last time?”