你们这电梯谁也安不成
“No one's installing an elevator here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Let me make this clear today. I don't agree.”
你们这电梯谁也 安不成
“No one's installing an elevator here.”
你这叫不讲理
“You're being unreasonable!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese residential communities, stubborn dissent from even one tenant can stall entire municipal renovation projects.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
no one / nobody
Used before a negated verb to express an absolute negative applied to everyone.
won't manage to install / can't be installed successfully
Potential complement structure expressing the impossibility of completing an action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So you were that person in the elevator that day.”
“They really installed this elevator just like that?”
“and your elevator takes it all up. That space out front”
“Isn't that the guy from the elevator the other day?”
“I also checked the security cameras. No one took the elevator. Two adults couldn't possibly vanish just like that.”
“Hello? Excuse me. We're stuck in the elevator.”