你不是说他出国了吗
“Didn't you say he went abroad?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是怎么回事
“Wang Fumin's body?”
你不是说 他出国 了吗
“Didn't you say he went abroad?”
王富民
“Wang Fumin...”
“You lied to me before, and now you owe me an explanation.”
In Chinese interaction, starting with '你不是说...' is a direct way to trap an interlocutor in their own contradiction, signaling that trust has been strained.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
didn't you say...
A rhetorical framing pattern used to point out an inconsistency between past statements and present reality.
to go abroad
A standard verb-object collocation indicating travel or relocation overseas.
Indicates completion of the action of going abroad.
Turns the statement into a rhetorical question to challenge the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now he's back home.”
“Well, I went abroad later.”
“But she's already gone abroad. What's really going on here?”
“Wouldn't it have been better if we had left the country?”
“But once you go abroad,”
“He went abroad, right?”