某个人要么知道一件事 要么就是不知道
“Someone knows something or they don't.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“But in my job, planting ideas often backfires.”
某个人 要么 知道 一件事 要么就是 不知道
“Someone knows something or they don't.”
“When we first met, I thought you looked familiar.”
“Stop trying to fish for answers; people either know the facts or they do not.”
In high-stakes professional or investigative contexts, speakers often resort to binary logic to push back against subtle psychological manipulation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
either... or...
A fundamental conjunction pair used to state mutually exclusive alternatives.
someone; a certain person
Used to speak generically or hypothetically about an unspecified individual.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Do you know how much impact public opinion will have on you?”
“What do you mean you don't know? Just move out immediately and divorce him.”
“We don't know! We really don't know!”
“pretend you didn't know about this?”
“Others might not know, but I know that.”
“pretend you don't know about this?”
“There's no way you know nothing.”
“Others may not know, but I do.”
“How can I pretend not to know?”
“You must know what happened to him.”
“pretend you don't know about this?”
“Don't you know that some things”