这世上哪有鬼 我不去
“- There's no ghost in the world. - I'm not going.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我
“I...”
这世上 哪有鬼 我不去
“- There's no ghost in the world. - I'm not going.”
别找我
“Don't come for me.”
“I'm terrified or annoyed by this nonsense, so leave me completely out of it.”
Chinese speakers often invoke common-sense materialism ('there are no ghosts') as a self-protective rationalization to decline frightening or risky tasks without admitting cowardice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how could there be, there is no such thing as
A common rhetorical device used to bluntly dismiss an assertion or refute a presupposition.
in this world
Frequently placed at the beginning of a sentence to make an absolute, categorical assertion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Demons do not exist.”
“In this world, every spirit wants that.”
“There are no monsters in this world,”
“Ghost! There's a ghost!”
“But I have nothing to hide.”
“If there was a ghost, I'd see it, and smell it too.”