县主 你不说我还真忘了
“Your Ladyship. I almost forgot if you didn't mention it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
想要给你女儿报仇 只杀这几个人 应该不够吧
“To avenge your daughter, killing these few people can't be enough.”
县主 你不说我还真忘了
“Your Ladyship. I almost forgot if you didn't mention it.”
县衙有记录
“The yamen has records.”
“You caught me off guard, but I am going to act like it was an insignificant detail I just forgot.”
Feigning poor memory or naivety is a classic Chinese conversational defense mechanism to deflect blame and reduce perceived culpability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have really forgotten
A very natural spoken idiom used either sincerely to acknowledge a reminder, or deceitfully to play dumb.
actually; really (often counter to expectation)
Adverbial chunk emphasizing the genuine or surprising nature of a state.
Indicates a completed change of state regarding the act of forgetting.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Your Ladyship, please don't misunderstand us.”
“Your Ladyship, you should know”
“Your Ladyship, you look unwell.”
“Your Ladyship, be careful.”
“Your Ladyship, I didn't mean to hide it from you.”
“Your Ladyship, we found this nearby.”