就当什么都不知道
“just pretend you know nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你呢
“As for you,”
就当 什么都不知道
“just pretend you know nothing.”
出了事情 就揭发我
“If things go wrong, just expose me.”
“Keep your mouth shut and pretend you are innocent so you don't go down with me.”
In high-stakes or ethically ambiguous situations, feigning ignorance (装聋作哑) is often employed as a survival tactic to shield allies.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
just treat it as; pretend that
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to suggest adopting a certain assumption or pretense.
to know nothing at all
A very common colloquial pattern for asserting or feigning complete ignorance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You don't have to pretend you don't know anything, right?”
“Just pretend you know nothing.”
“We don't even know what language it is. How can we translate it?”
“What do you want? I don't even know anything.”
“I know nothing at all.”
“I really don't know anything else.”
“I really don't know what I should buy.”
“You don't know what I asked you.”
“we can't pretend we know nothing, can we?”
“There's no way you know nothing.”
“How can I pretend not to know?”
“I don't know anything.”
“He had no idea.”
“Is there anything else I don't know?”
“How could I know nothing about it?”