这不咱俩之前说好的吗
“We had a deal.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
回去帮帮她呀
“and help her?”
这不 咱俩 之前说 好的 吗
“We had a deal.”
把唐盈盈送到
“Send Tang Yingying”
“We already settled this, so stop second-guessing and stick to the plan.”
Invoking a prior verbal consensus carries strong moral weight in Chinese interpersonal relations to prevent face-losing reneging.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't it the case that...
A rhetorical framing pattern used in spoken Northern Chinese to point out an obvious fact the listener should know.
agreed upon; promised
Essential conversational shorthand to refer back to an existing consensus or verbal commitment.
Forms a rhetorical question that prompts agreement rather than seeking new information.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Well, didn't we agree before?”
“Didn't we agree to it?”
“♪ The stars flow across the sky, and I walk this road with you ♪ didn't we already make a pact in the very beginning? ♪ From strangers, our hearts slowly grow close ♪”
“You finally invited us brothers out once”
“Didn't we agree on this?”
“isn't as good as Tashi's yet. Exactly.”
“But we agreed on that.”
“Lin Chen, didn't we?”