你刚才不还挺威风的吗？
“What happened to all that swagger?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
后怕了吧？
“Scared now, huh?”
你刚才 不还 挺 威风 的吗？
“What happened to all that swagger?”
行了 你就别笑话我了 我那方才 就是在气头上
“Come on. Don't tease me. Just now, I lost my temper.”
“Look at you now, trembling after all that acting tough earlier.”
Among close peers or partners, teasingly peeling away someone's pretense of bravado serves to foster intimacy and relieve tension.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
quite imposing; very mighty
Often used sarcastically in colloquial speech to mock someone putting on a grand show of bravery or authority.
weren't you still...
A rhetorical framing pattern used to point out a contradiction between past behavior and current reality.
Converts the rhetorical statement into an interrogative tag that demands acknowledgment of the obvious irony.
