好让自己脱身 对吗
“so you could escape, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就想着如何骗我
“you were thinking about how to deceive me,”
好让 自己 脱身 对吗
“so you could escape, right?”
你这个骗子
“You liar!”
“Stop pretending; you only did this to save your own skin.”
Using tag-like questions when confronting someone emphasizes certainty of guilt, effectively denying the other party a face-saving exit.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to get away or escape entanglement
Commonly used in formal or spoken Chinese to describe extricating oneself from danger or responsibility.
am I right? / correct?
Placed at the end of an accusation to corner the listener and demand an admission of guilt.
Marks the rhetorical question used to demand confirmation of the accusation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How can I escape?”
“not how to get rid of the crime,”
“turns out to be such a coward who'll do anything to save himself.”
“I can still break free on my own.”
“you could have escaped!”
“It seems like you'll be stuck here for a while.”