你会吗？ 那倒不会
“Would you? No.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
杀人放火
“or set fires?”
你会吗 ？ 那倒不会
“Would you? No.”
不过
“But”
“Obviously I would not go that far, but let us be realistic.”
Speakers often ask a rhetorical question and immediately answer it themselves with hedges like '倒' to steer the topic playfully.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
well, not to that extent / that is certainly not the case
A very common colloquial hedge used to soften an extreme assumption or rule out an exaggerated possibility.
Marks a direct yes-no question to prompt clarification.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You think I'm disapproving you?”
“will you please let me know?”
“Can't you just not go?”
“This won't cause trouble, right? What trouble?”
“are you sure you're OK?”
“Can you? Please? I'm begging you!”