你知道你不告诉我 让我出丑
“Yet you didn't tell me, making me look silly.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
高 高雪梅 建厂 你知不知道
“Gao Xuemei decided to build the factory. You knew that, right?”
你知道 你 不告诉我 让我出丑
“Yet you didn't tell me, making me look silly.”
“You're being unreasonable! Am I? Two different things.”
“You deliberately withheld this from me just to watch me make a fool of myself!”
In Chinese social interactions, public humiliation or losing face is deeply resented, often escalating personal conflicts when one partner feels left unprotected by the other.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to make a fool of oneself; to lose face in public
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe an embarrassing blunder or being humiliated in front of others.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Keeping it from me is guarding against me.”
“You just didn't want me to know too much.”
“Let me tell you, don't think I don't see through you.”
“You... You knew and didn't tell me? Why are you like this?”
“He told me every embarrassing thing you've done as a kid.”
“You have no idea what I've done.”