你肯定是被吵得睡不着吧
“You must've been kept awake by the noise.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“That attendant in the dormitory snores terribly.”
你 肯定是 被吵得 睡不着 吧
“You must've been kept awake by the noise.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Noticing someone's physical discomfort or lack of sleep and actively offering tea exemplifies the core Chinese interpersonal virtue of attentiveness (体贴).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
must have been (done by)
Combines high-certainty deduction '肯定' with passive marker '被' to infer someone else's passive predicament.
unable to fall asleep
A common potential complement indicating the inability to enter a state of sleep.
Softens the deduction into a seeking-confirmation tag question, making the remark warm and considerate.
