你能保证警察永远抓不到你吗
“Can you guarantee the police will never catch you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You're blinded by cash. Don't you have to pay with your life if you kill someone?”
你能保证 警察永远 抓不到 你 吗
“Can you guarantee the police will never catch you?”
我们的后半辈子
“Do you want to spend the rest of our lives”
“Stop lying to yourself; you cannot escape the law forever, and this will destroy us.”
In high-stakes family or relationship arguments, Chinese speakers use rhetorical questions with 'can you guarantee' to shake someone out of denial.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
can you guarantee...
Used as a rhetorical challenge to dismantle someone's unfounded confidence or unrealistic assumptions.
cannot catch / unable to apprehend
A potential complement indicating the inability to capture or arrest someone.
Forms a question, functioning here rhetorically to expose the impossibility of the proposition.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“that he won't be caught by the police. Or you'll be in trouble too.”
“You even dare to catch the police.”
“If you get caught by the police, we're all doomed.”
“Let's see whom the police will arrest. You or me?”
“Can he fool the police?”
“But the police haven't arrested him.”