你戒不戒 跟我有什么关系 我又不抓你
“Whether you're clean or not has nothing to do with me. I won't arrest you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我发誓我真的戒了 我这几年 尿检全都是合格的
“I swear I'm clean now. All my urine tests are negative these years.”
你戒不戒 跟我有什么关系 我又不抓你
“Whether you're clean or not has nothing to do with me. I won't arrest you.”
那 我就实在是想不通
“Well, I just don't understand...”
“Save your excuses; I don't care about your past, and I'm not here as an officer to police you.”
In Chinese social interactions, individuals often use sharp rhetorical questions to make it clear that another person's troubles are outside their purview.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what does that have to do with me?
A blunt rhetorical question used to reject personal involvement or responsibility.
it's not like I am... / I am not even...
Used to give a self-evident reason justifying one's indifference or non-involvement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Forget it. You quit. Don't smoke. Hurry. You go. Off you go.”
“I also quit smoking years ago,”
“Actually, I quit smoking years ago. Okay.”
“I promised you in rehab that I could quit.”
“I could quit drugs for you.”
“Now I can't quit even if I want to.”