电话里他可说一定来 你能别老给他打电话吗
“He said he'd come on the phone. Can you stop calling him?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没来
“He didn't come.”
电话 里他可说 一定来 你能 别老 给他 打电话 吗
“He said he'd come on the phone. Can you stop calling him?”
“Why can't I call my son-in-law?”
“Quit badgering him; you are only making things worse and driving him away.”
Parents in Chinese families frequently feel entitled to contact their sons-in-law directly, which adult children often see as intrusive boundary-crossing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could you please stop constantly...?
A common rhetorical structure used to register frustration at someone's repetitive, irritating habit.
explicitly stated / made very clear
Using '可' provides emphatic confirmation of what was said previously.
Turns the statement into a rhetorical request loaded with annoyance and exasperation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But why didn't he tell me when I called him?”
“Then don't you dare not answer when we call.”
“I called him,”
“No, not yet, but he's phoning him every ten minutes.”
“If he calls you again, don't answer.”
“I called him multiple times. But he didn't answer.”