你就假装什么都不知道
“Just pretend you know nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她发我妈干吗
“Why did she send that to my mom?”
你就 假装什么都不知道
“Just pretend you know nothing.”
不 不认识
“Say you don't know.”
“Keep your mouth shut and act dumb so neither of us gets caught.”
Pretending not to know about sensitive matters is a widespread interpersonal tactic in Chinese culture to avoid confrontation or preserve family harmony.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to pretend; to feign
A common verb used when telling someone to fake a reaction or status.
to know nothing at all
A classic absolute negative structure using the question word as an indefinite pronoun.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You don't have to pretend you don't know anything, right?”
“you should pretend you didn't hear it.”
“I thought you were pretending not to know me”
“pretend you didn't know about this?”
“Don't act like you know me well.”
“Why did you pretend you didn't know anything?”
“pretend you don't know about this?”
“…I'll act like nothing happened.”
“I pretended not to know anything.”
“You know nothing, don't tell anyone,”
“Besides, I don't even see your dog. Stop pretending! You kicked my dog before.”
“you really don't know anything?”
“And I had no idea.”
“I really don't know what you're after in Shanghai.”
“I really don't know anything.”
“I really don't know anything else.”
“You don't know what I asked you.”
“are you pretending not to know,”
“Who told you to play dumb?”
“just pretend you know nothing.”
“There's no way you don't know something.”
“we can't pretend we know nothing, can we?”
“There's no way you know nothing.”
“I really don't know anything!”
“He had no idea.”