你们歌舞团不也没你不行吗
“Your troupe can't run without you, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Can the company not run without you?”
你们歌舞团 不也没 你不行 吗
“Your troupe can't run without you, right?”
“Your foot is swollen like that,”
“You are not indispensable, so stop playing the martyr and look after yourself.”
Close friends or partners in China often use biting, reality-check sarcasm rather than gentle empathy to shake someone out of obsessive work habits.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot manage without you; indispensable
A common phrase used literally for flattery or ironically to puncture someone's inflated self-importance.
isn't it also the case that...?
A rhetorical construction used to point out a parallel counter-example and refute the interlocutor's point.
Ends the rhetorical question to force the listener to confront their faulty logic.
