他说他不是老板 也没问出个什么东西来
“He said he's not the boss. Didn't get much out of him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Their menu is very limited. I chatted with the guy.”
他说他 不是 老板 也 没问出个什么东西 来
“He said he's not the boss. Didn't get much out of him.”
“Does the shop have a back room?”
“The guy played dumb and stonewalled me completely.”
Suspects or staff in grey-market operations commonly feign ignorance or claim merely to be low-level hired hands to evade police questioning.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
manage to get any useful information out of (someone)
Used in the negative ('没问出...') to indicate that questioning or probing produced zero valuable results.
he said he wasn't
Standard indirect reporting formula introducing an excuse or denial.
Acts as a directional complement indicating the emergence or extraction of information through questioning.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He's not the boss. If you bust the place now,”
“You are flattering me.”
“Our boss really is different from everyone else.”
“that the boss doesn't know what to do either?”
“We're driven to this by those bosses.”
“Do you know who my boss is?”