你们怎么 说话不算话呀 他跟你怎么说的
“How can you go back on your word? What did he tell you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
孟总已经答应我 不收了
“Mr. Meng already promised me he wouldn't take it.”
你们 怎么 说话不算话 呀 他跟你 怎么说的
“How can you go back on your word? What did he tell you?”
“He told me... Whatever he told you is void.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese business and interpersonal ethics, 'shuohua suanhua' (standing by one's word) is paramount, and breaching verbal trust triggers intense moral indignation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to fail to keep one's word; to break a promise
A common colloquial idiom used to rebuke someone who has reneged on an agreement.
Softens the acoustic harshness while amplifying exasperation and bewilderment in a rhetorical question.
