他可不是第一次临时改变计划
“It's not the first time he's changed plans at the last minute.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么会明天有事情啊
“How could he suddenly have plans tomorrow?”
他 可不是 第一次 临时 改变计划
“It's not the first time he's changed plans at the last minute.”
他事情多呗
“He just has a lot going on.”
“You shouldn't be surprised; he always flakes out at the eleventh hour.”
Using '可' before a negative assertion intensifies the speaker's tone, often indicating weary familiarity with someone's chronic shortcomings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
definitely not the first time
Used with emphatic '可' to highlight a recurring negative habit or trend.
to change plans at the last minute
A standard collocation describing sudden schedule changes.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now the plan has changed.”
“was different from my original plan.”
“has disrupted all these plans.”
“wasn't a spur-of-the-moment act.”
“It's too late to change the plan now. We proceed as planned,”
“You weren't like this before.”