你吃得下去 我可吃不下
“You have an appetite, but I don't.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
热乎带汤吃一口
“How about noodles? Or noodle soup?”
你吃 得 下去 我可 吃不下
“You have an appetite, but I don't.”
怎么
“Why not? Are you full from drinking water?”
“How can you be so heartless and calm right now? I am too worried and angry to eat.”
In Chinese culture, refusing shared meals often signifies that interpersonal tension or grief is so severe that basic hospitality cannot be accepted.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
able to swallow food; have the stomach/appetite to eat
A potential complement construction often used negatively or rhetorically to reflect severe emotional stress.
as for me, however; I certainly
The particle '可' adds strong emphatic contrast against the other person's behavior.