你要装聋作哑一辈子吗
“you'll play dumb for the rest of your life?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但你敢保证
“But can you promise”
你要 装聋作哑 一辈子 吗
“you'll play dumb for the rest of your life?”
大森
“Sen.”
“Stop pretending nothing happened and face reality.”
Directly accusing someone of 'playing deaf and mute' shatters the face-saving pretext of neutrality, forcing the interlocutor to take a stand.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
feigning ignorance; playing deaf and mute
A powerful idiom used to accuse someone of willfully turning a blind eye to an issue.
a lifetime / whole life
Used for emphasis to frame a behavior as unsustainable and cowardly over the long run.
Marks the rhetorical challenge urging the other person to wake up.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“When are you going to stop playing dumb?”
“yet you still pretended to be crazy and fooled around just to survive.”
“playing the fool all along.”