你要这么说的话
“If you put it that way,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是共赢的局面
“is a win-win situation.”
你要这么说的话
“If you put it that way,”
我试着帮你说服一下他们啊
“I'll try to convince them for you.”
“Since you frame it as mutually beneficial, I am willing to step in and lobby for you.”
Prefacing a concession with 'if you put it that way' allows the speaker to yield gracefully by attributing their change of heart to reason rather than personal weakness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if you put it that way / looking at it from that perspective
Used as a conversational bridge to concede a point or agree to take action based on the other person's premise.
Functions as part of the conditional structure '...的话' to establish the conversational premise.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If you put it that way,”
“If that's the case,”
“Then according to what you said,”
“If that's your question,”
“Well, according to you,”
“- If you say so. - [Irving] You say so.”
“So by your logic,”
“If that's the case,”
“You think if you put it that way, I'll feel at ease accepting it?”