- 如果你这么说的话 - 你是这么说的
“- If you say so. - [Irving] You say so.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
因为你比其他人聪明太多了
“[sighs exaggeratedly] You're so much smarter.”
- 如果你这么说的话 - 你是 这么 说的
“- If you say so. - [Irving] You say so.”
你经常这么说 你档案上写的 我已经更仔细阅读过了
“You say it often, according to your file, which I've now read more carefully.”
“Do not pretend this is just my opinion; these are your own words.”
Saying '如果你这么说的话' is a common evasion tactic to dismiss an argument without fighting, which the opponent counters by enforcing direct ownership.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if...
Standard conditional construction often used colloquially to frame a scenario or set conditions.
to put it this way; to say so
Commonly used when referring to a previous statement or summarizing someone's viewpoint.
Used in the 'shi...de' cleft construction to emphasize that the other party was indeed the author of the remark.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If you put it that way,”
“If you put it that way,”
“Well, according to you,”
“I mean if.”
“Let's say, hypothetically,”
“If that's the case,”