他还能甩了我们
“Can he shake us?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他还能 甩了 我们
“Can he shake us?”
“There is no way he can slip past us.”
In spoken Chinese, framing an unlikely outcome with '还能...' serves as a forceful rhetorical device to project total certainty and bravado.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could still shake us off / ditch us
Used colloquially to question or dismiss someone's ability to get rid of or outrun someone.
Marks the completion of the action 'ditching' within the hypothetical rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If we break up, it'll be me dumping you.”
“he can't just walk away,”
“He thought he'd given us the slip. We phoned the captain.”