怎么现在还出尔反尔了呢
“Why are you going back on your word now?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们俩分手的时候 你说得好好的 不着急谈还钱
“When you two broke up, you explicitly said there was no rush to talk about repayment.”
怎么 现在还 出尔反尔 了呢
“Why are you going back on your word now?”
还用工作机会 威胁逼迫你的前女友还钱
“You're even using a job opportunity to threaten and force your ex-girlfriend to pay you back.”
“You are a dishonest hypocrite who cannot be trusted.”
Keeping one's word after a breakup is a critical measure of personal character in Chinese moral ethics; reneging on a promise causes serious loss of face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to go back on one's word; to contradict oneself
A common idiom used to strongly condemn someone who reneges on a promise or commitment.
Marks a change of state, indicating a shift from a previous agreement to the current broken promise.
Adds a rhetorical, interrogative push that sharpens the confrontational question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How can you go back on your word?”
“How can she go back on her word?”
“Yet you are handing it over now.”
“You were so angry yesterday, and you regret it already.”
“Now they come up with this excuse.”
“Are you going back on your word now?”