继续装傻
“Keep playing dumb.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一个字都不要说
“don't say a single word.”
继续 装傻
“Keep playing dumb.”
有埋伏 保护太子
“Ambush! Protect His Highness!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In high-stakes Chinese dynastic politics and literature, acting ignorant or powerless is a classic survival tactic to avoid attracting lethal suspicion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to feign ignorance; to play dumb
A very common colloquial expression used when someone pretends not to know something to evade blame or avoid trouble.
continue; go on
Placed directly before verbs to mean continue doing an action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But I don't know how to act crazy, right?”
“You were just being silly.”
“yet you still pretended to be crazy and fooled around just to survive.”
“playing the fool all along.”
“Keep pretending. Do it.”