你见过只说一句谎话的骗子吗
“Have you ever seen a liar who tells only one lie?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
查什么 一伪俱伪
“Into what? One lie, all lies.”
你 见过 只 说一句 谎话的 骗子 吗
“Have you ever seen a liar who tells only one lie?”
“And now that I think carefully,”
“Don't be naive; if they lied once, everything else they said is also a lie.”
Reflects the traditional Chinese legal and moral belief that once a person proves untrustworthy in one aspect, all their testimony loses credibility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have you ever seen...?
A classic rhetorical pattern used to point out an obvious absurdity or refute someone's naivety.
swindler; cheat; liar
Used directly to accuse someone of habitual deceit.
Marks a rhetorical question expecting a strong negative answer.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the deadliest lie in the world is when”
“But I say it's deceptive nonsense.”
“Were those merely pleasing lies?”
“(I tore through my own lie.)”
“I'm still worse than that liar.”