问你什么都不肯答 怎么反而问起我来了?
“You won't answer a single thing I ask, yet you're questioning me instead?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你到底是什么人?
“Who are you, really?”
问你 什么 都 不肯 答 怎么 反而 问起我来 了?
“You won't answer a single thing I ask, yet you're questioning me instead?”
就算我说了 你有命能找到吗?
“Even if I tell you, do you think you'll live to find it?”
“You have no right to question me when you won't even give me straight answers.”
In Chinese conversational dynamics, the party asking questions holds the dominant status; reversing questions (反客为主) is viewed as an explicit challenge to authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
refusing to answer anything asked
Used to express exasperation when someone stonewalls during an inquiry.
turning around and questioning me instead
A rhetorical way to accuse someone of inappropriately deflecting questions back onto the asker.
Marks the sudden emergence of an unwelcome shift in the situation or role reversal.