一直以来都在装疯卖傻
“playing the fool all along.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“only then did I realize that he had long harmed ill intentions,”
一直以来 都在 装疯卖傻
“playing the fool all along.”
太后仁慈
“Her Majesty is benevolent.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Pretending to be mentally unfit or foolish was a classic survival tactic in perilous imperial politics to lower the guard of powerful rivals.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to feign madness and act foolishly; play the fool
A very common four-character idiom describing deliberate deceit to avoid danger or disguise ill intent.
all this time; all along
A frequent temporal connective used to emphasize continuous action or state over an extended duration.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We've been interrogating him, and he keeps playing dumb.”
“Keep playing dumb.”
“playing dumb with us?”
“you'll play dumb for the rest of your life?”
“He actually played dumb for so long.”
“yet you still pretended to be crazy and fooled around just to survive.”
“You've been faking it all along.”