我根本就没有想过要杀人
“I never intended to kill anyone.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
从魏阳消失 我就是想把他们给吓跑嘛
“that Xu Meng and her father be driven out of Weiyang. I only meant to scare them away.”
我 根本就没有想过 要杀人
“I never intended to kill anyone.”
再说后面小灰狼他也没有动手啊 小灰狼没有动手
“Besides, Wolfie never acted. - So… - If Wolfie didn't act,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Suspects in Chinese legal contexts draw a sharp line between scare tactics and actual malicious intent to lessen criminal liability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
simply did not at all; completely never
Used for emphatic denial of an accusation or assumption.
ever intended to; ever thought about wanting to
Commonly used in spoken Chinese when denying premeditated intentions or plans.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I never wanted to kill anyone.”
“Then why did you kill him? I-I didn't kill him.”
“I never wanted to kill him.”