你高不高兴我看不出来啊
“Do you think I can't tell if you're happy or not?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我是你师哥
“I'm your senior.”
你高 不高兴 我看 不 出来啊
“Do you think I can't tell if you're happy or not?”
我很高兴的
“I am very happy.”
“You can't fool me; stop pretending you're fine and tell me what's wrong.”
In Chinese culture, a senior male schoolmate or colleague ('shixiong') holds a quasi-familial protective role, entitling him to pierce emotional pretenses and offer emotional support.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
whether one is happy or not
An A-not-A question form used as an embedded clause representing emotional state.
cannot tell / cannot detect
A potential complement expressing inability to discern something visually or intuitively.
Softens the rhetorical question while adding a tone of friendly obviousness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Can't I see?”
“Then why don't you look happy?”
“I can tell whether you like it or not.”
“And you thought I wouldn't notice, huh?”