到这儿了我还能跟你装糊涂吗
“How could I still play dumb at this point?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不能够不能够
“No, of course not.”
到这儿 了我 还能 跟你 装糊涂 吗
“How could I still play dumb at this point?”
那天我就在家里面睡觉 哪儿都没去
“I was just sleeping at home that day. Didn't go anywhere.”
“Look, I know there is no way out of this, so believe me when I tell you what happened.”
In high-pressure questioning contexts, Chinese speakers frequently use negative rhetorical questions with modal verbs like '还能...吗' to strongly project candor and cooperative intent.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
play dumb / feign ignorance
Use when someone is pretending not to understand an issue in order to dodge responsibility or avoid trouble.
now that things have reached this stage / at this point
Commonly used to indicate that circumstances have escalated to an irreversible or critical point.
Forms a rhetorical question that strongly implies an emphatic negative ('Of course I wouldn't').
