还是喜欢这么装神弄鬼
“and you old demon still love playing these spooky tricks.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's been over a century, and you old demon still love playing these spooky tricks.”
还是 喜欢 这么 装神弄鬼
“and you old demon still love playing these spooky tricks.”
我可是侍鳞宗的双花大法师 是人 你才是妖怪
“I'm a double-flower hunter of the Shilin Sect. I'm a human. You are the demon.”
“Quit acting so mysterious; you have not changed a bit and you do not intimidate me.”
In Chinese storytelling and daily life, accusing someone of 'playing ghosts and spirits' cuts through unearned pretension by framing dramatic flair as deceit.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to act mysteriously to fool people; to play tricks
A vivid four-character idiom used colloquially to call someone out for acting pretentious, deceptive, or superstitious.
still like to; still prone to
Used to point out a persistent, often annoying habit in someone you have known for a long time.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“[man] He's playing mysterious.”
“Enough tricks.”
“Someone's playing tricks.”
“kind of considerate, aren't they— putting on all this ghostly showmanship.”
“Still pretending to be dead?”
“Pretentious people like you annoy me!”