为什么不直接告诉我们呢
“why wouldn't she tell us directly?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说 她要知道任小名是凶手
“If she knew Ren Xiaoming was the murderer,”
为什么不直接告诉我们呢
“why wouldn't she tell us directly?”
直接告诉你
“Telling you directly might not leave a deep impression.”
“It makes no sense to hide this unless she has an ulterior motive.”
Colleagues working on a problem often use conversational rhetoric to bounce theories off each other and detect underlying motives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why not
A natural way to ask for reasons or suggest alternative actions in conversational Chinese.
to tell directly
Commonly used when contrasting open, direct communication with secretive or roundabout behavior.
Softens the rhetorical question and invites the listener to join in pondering the unresolved question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing at the time?”
“if he knew I was a transmigrator, why didn't he ask me directly?”
“he didn't tell us what we should do. If my sister finds out that we've known it already,”
“Why didn't you tell me?”
“Why didn't you tell me?”
“Why didn't you tell me?”
“But why didn't you say it straight out earlier?”
“Why didn't you tell me?”