昨夜的那场火不敷衍吗？
“Wasn't last night's fire convenient?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这么敷衍
“How convenient.”
昨夜的那场火 不敷衍吗 ？
“Wasn't last night's fire convenient?”
“You call that an accident? It was obviously a clumsy, half-hearted cover-up!”
The word 'fuyan' expresses dissatisfaction with someone doing a job half-heartedly purely to go through the motions and deceive scrutiny.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't it half-hearted / sloppy?
A rhetorical negative question used to forcefully state that something was done carelessly or superficially.
Forms a rhetorical question to reinforce an accusatory point rather than asking for genuine information.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Still, it shouldn't become so popular overnight.”
“What is wrong with tonight?”
“If I didn’t arrange it, maybe this fire wouldn't have started.”
“Is it because of what happened last night?”
“You didn't stay up all night, did you?”
“Something else must have happened.”