这啥都不知道 怎么找啊
“We know nothing. How can we find her?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没见过呀
“- Who's this guy? - I have never seen him before.”
这 啥都不知道 怎么找啊
“We know nothing. How can we find her?”
“We'll find her if we check every room. Excuse me, do you know which dorm room Bai Shu lives in?”
“We have zero clues, this is an impossible mission.”
In spoken Chinese, rhetorical questions framed with 怎么 (how) are standard ways to voice complaints and signal that an assigned task is unrealistic.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
knowing nothing at all
A very common colloquial equivalent of 什么都不知道, used to emphasize total lack of information.
how are we supposed to find it/search?
Rhetorical question expressing confusion or perceived impossibility in finding something.
Softens the rhetorical question into a natural colloquial plea or complaint.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Where do we go from here?”
“How could I not know anything?”
“We don't even know what language it is. How can we translate it?”
“What do you want? I don't even know anything.”
“Where can we find one now?”
“I know nothing at all.”
“I really don't know anything.”
“How would I know? Hard to say. I don't know.”
“I don't know what I want to see. or what I'm looking for.”
“How could I not know at all?”
“I really don't know anything!”
“It's such a small place. There's nothing you can miss.”
“I don't know anything.”
“How did I not notice at all?”
“How could I know nothing about it?”