你都不知道的事 我咋知道
“Even you don't know. How would I know?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你不知道啊
“You don't know?”
你都不知道 的事 我 咋知道
“Even you don't know. How would I know?”
“You are closer to this than I am—stop asking me stupid questions.”
Using rhetorical questions to deflect inquiries is a common conversational device in Chinese to highlight the illogical nature of the question.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even...
A key grammatical pattern used to emphasize an extreme case to prove a point.
how would I know
Colloquial (Northern-influenced) alternative to '我怎么知道', conveying casual dismissal or slight irritation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't know anything. Yu Qingtian.”
“You know nothing, don't tell anyone,”
“I had no idea what I was even doing.”
“You have no idea what I've done.”
“you have no idea what kind of abyss I've fallen into.”
“Let me tell you. Many people had crushes on him back then.”
“You know what, my mom likes you a lot. She even wants”
“Do you know why the city wants to open the mine?”
“There's a lot you don't know.”
“You have no idea. It's all over Wenyi Road.”
“Do you know that if you do this,”
“No one else knows. Do not tell anyone.”
“What do I know that the task force doesn't?”
“I don't know anything! Let's see…”
“You don't know what I've done in the past.”
“You have no idea how scared I was.”
“What, you knew about this? No, I didn't.”