你们不会是警察吧
“You're not cops, are you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
要想在湾南成事 就得守我们的规矩
“If you want to get things done here, you must play by our rules.”
你们 不会是 警察 吧
“You're not cops, are you?”
老人家
“Old-timer,”
“You don't act like normal people—are you cops snooping around?”
Framing a direct suspicion with speculative structures softens confrontation while forcing the counterpart to react spontaneously.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could it be; surely it's not
Used to express tentative suspicion or worry about an undesirable possibility.
Softens a presumptive question while inviting confirmation or denial from the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You are not police at all, are you?”
“You are cops,”
“[Ta-fu] I didn't know he was an officer.”
“you're not a police officer now, and you're not an owner here either.”
“You said the police are looking for a man and a woman”
“I knew you were a cop.”