你又何必在我这儿浪费时间？
“why waste time here with me?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
到底还是个没见识的女流 他若真的说了
“but in the end, you're just an ignorant woman. If he really did spill,”
你 又何必 在我这儿 浪费时间 ？
“why waste time here with me?”
“Leave me alone; you are getting nothing out of me.”
In tense interrogations, speakers often deflect pressure not by fighting back openly, but by framing their interrogator's efforts as useless and beneath them.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
there is really no need to; why bother
A rhetorical phrase used to discourage someone from doing something futile or excessive.
waste time
A highly common idiom used across spoken and written Chinese to denote fruitless endeavors.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You don't need to waste your time on me.”
“Don't waste your time on me.”
“why cling to it?”
“Stop wasting time here. You're wasting everyone's time in this room.”
“I'm not worth your time.”
“So let's not waste time.”