不是 你先告诉我 这照片谁给你发的
“No, you tell me first. Who sent you this photo?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You knew all along, didn't you? What's going on?”
不是 你先告诉我 这照片谁 给你 发的
“No, you tell me first. Who sent you this photo?”
起开 看谁发的
“Move aside. Let me see.”
“Never mind what I knew; tell me who is behind this right now!”
Starting with '不是' followed by a counter-demand is a pragmatic strategy in Chinese arguments to deflect accusations and reclaim conversational dominance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tell me first
Used to take control of an interrogation by demanding priority for one's own question.
what is going on; what happened
A fundamental conversational formula to demand an explanation about an unexpected situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If you hadn't posed together, there wouldn't have been this photo.”
“I'll send you the picture of his avatar first.”
“But who took this photo? I...”
“[Provincial Liberal Arts Top Scorer] I-Isn't there a photo? [Lin Wanxing of Yongchuan Experimental High School]”
“Excuse me, but did you take this photo?”
“I'll send you the photo and address.”