你这话不能这么讲吧
“How could you say that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“From now on, you take care of everything related to her.”
你这话 不能这么讲 吧
“How could you say that?”
你哥哥走了 就没有这个 亲戚关系了吗 那凌霄呢
“Your brother is gone, so you have nothing to do with her? What about Ling Xiao?”
“You are being completely unreasonable and selfish by acting like we are no longer family.”
In Chinese culture, kinship ties and ethical duties often transcend formal legal boundaries, making any unilateral refusal of familial support a severe moral infraction.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot say it like that; that's not a fair way to put it
A useful conversational phrase for pushing back against an interlocutor's unfair framing or conclusion.
Softens the blunt challenge into a rhetorical critique, expecting agreement or backing the listener into a corner.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you really shouldn't say that.”
“That's not how it works.”
“It's not that simple.”
“but you can't say that about Mr. Wang.”