我还不够守法
“Am I not law-abiding enough?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
做一个守法的人
“be a law-abiding person.”
我 还不够 守法
“Am I not law-abiding enough?”
“You think I'm breaking the law? Look how compliant I've been.”
Rhetorical questions starting with '还不够' are frequently deployed in spoken Chinese to counter moral accusations with feigned compliance or irony.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not enough; insufficiently
Placed before adjectives to express falling short of a standard, often used rhetorically with '还'.
abide by the law; law-abiding
Formal verb-object compound frequently used in legal contexts and moral counseling.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't have the courage to face legal judgment,”
“You know the law pretty well.”
“as long as they abide by the law,”
“Without investigation, the law cannot be upheld,”
“You're deliberately breaking the law.”
“The law will judge everything you've done.”