你打算装傻装到什么时候
“When are you going to stop playing dumb?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I've never heard her story. Tell me about it then.”
你 打算 装傻 装到什么时候
“When are you going to stop playing dumb?”
你到底想干嘛
“What exactly are you up to?”
“Cut the innocent act—I see right through you.”
While feigning ignorance (装傻) is sometimes used as a protective social shield in Chinese interactions, directly calling it out signifies that the speaker refuses to let the interlocutor maintain face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to play dumb; to feign ignorance
Commonly used to describe someone intentionally acting oblivious to evade responsibility or awkwardness.
until when will you keep putting on this act
A rhetorical challenge emphasizing that the listener's ongoing pretense has exceeded acceptable limits.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you'll play dumb for the rest of your life?”
“But I don't know how to act crazy, right?”
“You were just being silly.”
“He actually played dumb for so long.”