我觉得他说的话 不尽不实
“His words did not ring true to me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
或许是因为碍着礼数
“Maybe it's just... manners?”
我觉得 他 说的 话 不尽不实
“His words did not ring true to me.”
我依稀记得 昨夜我落水之前 见到的那个身影
“I can still dimly recall the figure I glimpsed before the water took me...”
“He is clearly hiding something important and lying to us.”
Using literary idioms like '不尽不实' allows educated speakers to question someone's integrity without sounding vulgarly aggressive, maintaining refined decorum while raising serious doubts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not entirely true; mixed with falsehoods
A formal four-character idiom used to describe an account or testimony that conceals the truth or contains lies.
vaguely remember
A literary collocation expressing a hazy or faint recollection of a past event.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Whether it's true or not,”
“is this true?”
“Who knows if what he said is true?”
“Maybe he told the truth.”
“No one will believe a word he says.”
“I don't believe any of it.”