不然要花多少时间?
“How much time should we take?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Huh. You guys work pretty fast.”
不然要花多少时间 ?
“How much time should we take?”
任哥
“[Hsin-ping] Mr. Jen?”
“Of course we're fast, what did you expect?”
Senior officers or experienced professionals often use rhetorical questions to project authority and minimize perceived difficulty of routine work.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
otherwise / what else
Commonly placed at the beginning of a sentence to challenge an assumption or present an obvious alternative.
spend how much time / take how long
A standard spoken phrase for asking or discussing duration and time investment.