你不是能要得过来吗
“Are you able to get it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“But aren't you capable? Aren't you full of tricks?”
你 不是 能要得过来吗
“Are you able to get it?”
“What are you acting so high and mighty for now that you're home?”
“You boasted you could easily get that money back, look at you now, completely humiliated!”
Using rhetorical questions starting with '你不是...' is a classic Chinese speech strategy to attack someone's competence when they fail to live up to prior boasting.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
able to successfully retrieve or demand back
A potential complement construction used when talking about claiming back money, debts, or property.
didn't you say / aren't you supposed to be...
A rhetorical question pattern commonly used to confront someone with their past words or contradictory behavior.
Forms a rhetorical question loaded with skepticism and mockery.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You may get drowned.”
“It'd be a miracle if you could even lift them.”
“I don't believe I can't win you over. [Winfred Wang] [Search]”
“or get the things you crossed out in the future.”
“can be won over by us?”
“there are plenty of others who can.”