我凭什么帮你甩掉警察
“Why should I do that for you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你得想办法把他们引走
“You have to find a way to distract them.”
我凭什么 帮你 甩掉警察
“Why should I do that for you?”
“Why should I distract the police for you? Then I'll bring them to meet you.”
“You have no leverage over me, so why should I take the heat for you?”
In tense confrontations, invoking 'on what grounds' signals that mutual obligations have broken down and assistance requires immediate leverage or incentives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
on what grounds / why should I
Use this rhetorical question to forcefully dispute someone's entitlement to make a demand.
to shake off / to lose (a pursuer)
Commonly used in action or crime contexts to describe escaping someone trailing or tailing you.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why should I distract the police for you? Then I'll bring them to meet you.”
“What right do you have to arrest me?”
“Why should I believe you can help me find the real culprit?”
“how did you let the police get on your tail?”
“take a police officer, it's to use them as leverage”
“are you worthy of being a cop?”