揣着明白装糊涂是吧
“Playing dumb, huh?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你想说什么吧
“What are you trying to say?”
揣着明白装糊涂 是吧
“Playing dumb, huh?”
“Cut the innocent act—we both know you understand exactly what's going on.”
Pretending not to understand is a common tactic in Chinese social navigation to avoid confrontation; calling it out explicitly signals that diplomatic niceties are officially over.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to feign ignorance despite fully understanding the situation; to play dumb
A vivid and very common idiom used when confronting someone trying to dodge responsibility by acting clueless.
Tags the rhetorical accusation to corner the listener and demand immediate confirmation or surrender of the pretense.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“or are you playing dumb with me?”
“are you pretending not to know,”
“the fact that I like you?”