没想到你竟如此地不讲信用
“I didn't expect you to be so untrustworthy.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
想着有朝一日能用上
“He thought they'd be useful one day.”
没想到 你竟如此地 不讲信用
“I didn't expect you to be so untrustworthy.”
要去我只带你去
“If we go, I'll only take you.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, honor and trust (xin) are paramount moral virtues; calling someone 'bujiang xinyong' is a severe reproach of their personal integrity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
never expected / surprisingly
Prefaces a surprising or disappointing outcome contrary to the speaker's prior assumptions.
to keep one's word / to be trustworthy
A core moral concept used to praise reliability; negated as '不讲信用' to call someone untrustworthy.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You're not a man of your word!”
“I knew people like you were unreliable! [July 24 00:16]”
“How ungrateful of you!”