我不知道 你现在是真傻了 还是跟我装傻
“I don't know if you're actually stupid or just playing dumb.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
姐
“Ju,”
我不知道 你现在 是 真傻了 还是跟我 装傻
“I don't know if you're actually stupid or just playing dumb.”
“You guys kept messing with Xinhai. It even went to the inspection team.”
“Cut the act, you know exactly what kind of trouble you're causing.”
Pretending ignorance is a common interpersonal self-defense tactic in Chinese social interactions to evade responsibility or confrontation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to play dumb / feign ignorance
Used in informal spoken Chinese when someone intentionally pretends not to understand a situation.
I don't know whether you are... or...
A rhetorical pattern used to confront someone with two unflattering interpretations of their actions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Did you drink yourself silly? Today's the 30th. Tomorrow is the 31st.”
“You'll prove yourself a dummy if you guess it wrong. Look, I'll make an impression of it.”