要不是连莉萨都不知道
“Lisa doesn't even know,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我最喜欢这款
“this is my favorite.”
要不是 连 莉萨 都不知道
“Lisa doesn't even know,”
“or I would think she told you.”
“How on earth did you guess this? Not even my closest friend knows!”
Emphasizing that an intimate preference was unknown even to close confidants highlights a serendipitous, almost telepathic bond between the two speakers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it weren't for / were it not that
Crucial conditional conjunction used to set up a counterfactual premise in casual and formal conversation.
even... (doesn't)
A standard emphatic construction used to emphasize an extreme case to prove a point.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“There's no way Terry doesn't know.”
“(or they both really don't know about the truth.)”
“yet even he doesn't know where you came from.”