该不会连小孩生了也看不到爸爸?
“I was wondering if we'd see the father after the baby was born.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我想说婚礼的时候看不到新郎
“We didn't see the groom at the wedding.”
该不会 连 小孩生 了 也 看不到 爸爸?
“I was wondering if we'd see the father after the baby was born.”
陈妈 都是我的错
“Auntie Chen, this is all my fault.”
“Missing the wedding was bad enough, don't tell me he's going to abandon his newborn child too.”
Weddings and childbirth are major life milestones in Chinese culture; a husband's absence from either brings enormous disgrace and moral condemnation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely not... / don't tell me that...
Use this rhetorical pattern to hypothesize an undesirable or outrageous outcome you suspect might happen.
even... (also)...
A standard correlative structure used to emphasize extreme examples or escalating failures.