你难道不知道那份合同 是动了手脚的吗
“Didn't you know that contract was tampered with?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们说 这合同是可以随时终止的呀
“They said the contract could be terminated at any time.”
你 难道不知道 那份 合同 是 动了手脚 的 吗
“Didn't you know that contract was tampered with?”
“How could you be so foolish to believe them?”
In Chinese business culture, informal spoken assurances (like verbal cancellation promises) are notoriously risky compared to legal fine print, highlighting the friction between trust and fraud.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tampered with; rigged; played tricks
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe dishonest manipulation of documents, objects, or processes.
don't you even know; could it be that you don't know
A rhetorical construction used to express disbelief at someone's ignorance of an obvious fact.
Marks a rhetorical question with an assertive, interrogative edge.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Today, he used that tampered contract to force me to compromise.”
“Then, where did this contract come from?”
“Have you looked over these contracts? I've seen them.”
“There's a contract on the table. Sign it.”
“You didn't read the contracts, did you?”
“Did you deliberately send me away?”