你怎么就越说越邪乎呢 我怎么越来越不相信
“You make it sound so weird. I'm finding it hard to believe you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Even more impressive than Hong Kong singers. The audience were captivated.”
你 怎么就 越说越邪乎 呢 我怎么 越来越 不相信
“You make it sound so weird. I'm finding it hard to believe you.”
你说的话了
“I'm finding it hard to believe you.”
“You are making this up as you go; stop exaggerating.”
In casual Chinese social interactions, playful boasting is often met with immediate, teasing call-outs like calling something 'xiehu' (spooky/outlandish) to keep relationships grounded.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
getting more and more exaggerated/outlandish the more one talks
Use this spoken idiom when someone is embellishing a story to an unbelievable degree.
believing less and less
A common structure to express growing doubt in what someone says.
Softens the rhetorical question while highlighting the speaker's mild bewilderment.
