不是 你得考虑清楚
“Well, you should think about this carefully.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“There's no pressure on me to support myself in the future.”
不是 你得 考虑清楚
“Well, you should think about this carefully.”
其实我一直在考虑 也终于考虑清楚了
“Actually I've been thinking about this, and I finally figured it out”
“Hold on, you are being overly naive about how tough this will actually be.”
Starting a sentence with '不是' in spoken Mandarin rarely means a literal logical negation; rather, it functions as a conversational speed bump to check an impulsive assertion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wait / hold on / that's not right
Often used sentence-initially as an argumentative discourse marker to interject and disagree before offering advice.
think through thoroughly
Common collocation applied when confronting irreversible decisions, such as marriage, divorce, or quitting a job.
