- 这种事时有发生 - 她可不是
“- It happens. - [Carl] Well, not to her.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
- 是的 但那个案子你们输了 - 对 陪审团作出了对我们不利的裁决
“- [Carl] Yeah, but you lost that one. - Well, the jury went against us.”
- 这种事 时有发生 - 她 可不是
“- It happens. - [Carl] Well, not to her.”
我看过她的记录 她很少输
“I've seen her records. She wasn't exactly prone to losing.”
“Don't normalize this loss—she almost never loses, so this is abnormal.”
Depending on intonation and context, 'ke bu shi' can either mean passionate agreement ('You can say that again!') or sharp contrastive negation ('She is definitely not one of those').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to occur from time to time; to happen occasionally
A semi-formal, set four-character phrase used to describe recurring phenomena.
certainly not (in this context of disagreement)
Notice the context: while it can mean agreement ('indeed'), here combined with contrastive tone it strongly negates a previous assertion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“[Zhao Hengzhi] Did anything strange happen here today?”
“Naturally, I am to be suspected.”
“but this private matter just happened to blow up at an awkward time.”