你以为别人想不到这办法呀 法国人都说了
“You think others didn't think of this? The French said,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
它后门都通着华埠对不对
“Their back doors all connect to Chinatown, right?”
你以为别人想不到 这 办法 呀 法国人 都说了
“You think others didn't think of this? The French said,”
谁敢从后门放人 就封锁整个房子
“if anyone dares to let people in through the back door, they will seal the whole house,”
“Don't be so naive, they anticipated this long before you did.”
Starting a sentence with '你以为' immediately frames the listener's idea as short-sighted, a common blunt device in conversational Chinese debates.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
do you really think / you assume
Commonly introduces a rhetorical challenge indicating that the listener's assumption is mistaken or naive.
unable to think of / not anticipate
A potential complement construction used to describe something unforeseen or overlooked.
Adds rhetorical force and disbelief to the rhetorical question.
