这鱼塘不会是他们家的吧
“Is he the owner of this fishpond?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
有人来了
“Someone is coming.”
这鱼塘 不会是 他们家 的 吧
“Is he the owner of this fishpond?”
我查过了
“I've checked.”
“I bet this place belongs to them; we might be walking right into their territory.”
Using 'buhuishi... ba' is the standard spoken strategy in Mandarin to express a worrying suspicion without asserting it as an absolute fact.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could it be that... / surely it isn't...
A rhetorical grammatical frame used to express an educated guess or intuitive suspicion.
Marks an intuitive conjecture, seeking confirmation from the partner.