我可提醒你了啊 要是你说话不算数的话
“I'm warning you now. If you break your promise,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那你打算什么时候给我 明天 后天 还是大后天
“Then when will you give it to me? Tomorrow, the day after, or the day after that?”
我可 提醒你 了啊 要是 你说话 不算数 的话
“I'm warning you now. If you break your promise,”
我就再也不理你了
“I'll never talk to you again.”
“You better follow through this time, or there will be real consequences between us.”
In Chinese interpersonal relations, keeping spoken commitments is fundamental to trustworthiness (信); calling out someone for 'speaking without counting' is a serious relational rebuke.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to fail to keep one's word / to break a promise
A very common colloquial idiom used to reprimand someone untrustworthy or flaky.
to remind / to warn
Paired with '可' (我可提醒你了) to introduce a firm preemptive warning.
Marks the completed action of giving a formal warning.
Softens the warning while drawing heightened attention to the impending condition.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Let me remind you.”
“Let me jog your memory.”
“remind you on my behalf:”
“so I have to remind you of something.”
“That's exactly what I wanted to warn you about. You need to be careful.”
“Do I need you to remind me? Just drive. I was only trying to be helpful.”