你这句话不是在半年前 就应该问了吗?
“Shouldn't you have asked me that six months ago?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You were screwing someone else!”
你这句话 不是在 半年前 就应该 问 了吗 ?
“Shouldn't you have asked me that six months ago?”
棒 你好棒 陈立璇你好棒 超棒
“Wow. Amazing. Chen Lixuan, you're incredible. Really.”
“You are bringing this up way too late to play the victim now.”
When facing intense emotional confrontations, speakers often shift the focus from the core misdeed to flaws in the accuser's behavior or timeline as a defense mechanism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't it the case that...
A classic rhetorical question pattern used to press a point or highlight an obvious inconsistency.
ought to have / should have long ago
Used to emphasize that an action was expected to take place much earlier than it actually did.
Marks an anticipated state or overdue expectation that should have been realized in the past.
Forms a rhetorical question that sharply challenges the interlocutor's standpoint.