谁跟你说的 我们要去县城
“Who told you we're going to the county?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I want to make a trip to the Telecom Bureau, and call my chief editor.”
谁跟你说的 我们要去县城
“Who told you we're going to the county?”
那咱们去哪儿
“Then where are we going?”
“You don't get to decide where we go, and we certainly aren't going to town just for your phone call.”
Starting a sentence with 'who told you' is a sharp colloquial device in Chinese to discredit an assumption and assert dominance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
who told you that?
A rhetorical question used to sharply challenge a mistaken claim or faulty assumption.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Listen. They said”
“Let me tell you.”
“Listen. Don't tell anyone you've seen us.”
“so she asked me to talk to you.”
“Let me tell you. We are divorced.”
“you've come to the wrong place.”