可是我什么都不记得了
“but I don't even remember anything.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“My question cost you 15 years of your life,”
可是 我 什么都不记得了
“but I don't even remember anything.”
“You don't need to feel guilty anymore because to me, it's completely gone.”
Claiming forgetfulness is often used in Chinese interpersonal relations to spare the other party unbearable moral guilt and restore harmony.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
do not remember anything at all
A standard structure (什么都 + negative verb) used to express total absence of memory or awareness.
Indicates a current state of amnesia or a change into forgetting everything.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“really not remember anything?”
“that there were no memories left inside it.”
“Why don't I remember any of it?”
“I wouldn't have forgotten. What if your memory was erased?”
“I don't remember that night at all.”
“she claimed she had amnesia and couldn't remember anything.”