那我们怎么能跟她比呢
“How can we compare to her?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
肯定少不了她的呀
“she'll definitely get them.”
那 我们 怎么能跟 她 比 呢
“How can we compare to her?”
干活的时候让我们大家一起上
“We all did the work.”
“There's a double standard here; she reaps the rewards while we just do the grunt work.”
Rhetorical questions like this allow Chinese colleagues to build mutual empathy and complain about corporate unfairness without directly defying management to their faces.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how can one compare to...
A standard rhetorical construction used to emphasize an insurmountable disparity between two people or things.
Softens the rhetorical question while reinforcing the speaker's tone of grievance and disbelief.