程恳咱也不一直跟着吗 不也没问题吗
“We've been tailing Cheng Ken the whole time, right? Nothing came up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Didn't you look into those diet pills? Didn't they check out? They were clean.”
程恳咱 也不 一直 跟着 吗 不也没问题吗
“We've been tailing Cheng Ken the whole time, right? Nothing came up.”
“So what's the problem now? I'm stumped.”
“Don't blame me for missing something—we both monitored him closely and found nothing wrong.”
Using '不也...吗' allows speakers to cite mutual prior experiences to deflect unilateral fault when unexpected complications arise.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
following continuously / shadowing the entire time
Can refer literally to physical shadowing or figuratively to tracking someone's case/status without interruption.
didn't it turn out fine as well?
A rhetorical double-negative pattern used defensively to remind the listener that past results were completely normal.
Used at the end of the rhetorical question to urge the interlocutor to acknowledge the stated fact.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Cheng Ken can't hold on much longer.”
“Is Cheng Ken in some kind of trouble? No. It's a case. He's a witness.”
“Cheng Ken will take the fall for everything?”
“If that's the case, could Cheng Ken be his accomplice?”
“Cheng Ken said he has a big business to talk to us.”
“Can you do that? You always thought Cheng Ken was a fool.”