也没说这应该怎么办呀 我们要是知道我们早知道了
“he didn't tell us what we should do. If my sister finds out that we've known it already,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我这是看到了还是没看到啊 那城主走之前
“Did I see it or not? Before His Excellency left,”
也没说这 应该怎么办 呀 我们 要是 知道 我们 早知道了
“he didn't tell us what we should do. If my sister finds out that we've known it already,”
我就死定了 你妹 你去啊 你去 我不去 我不去
“I'll be dead meat. It's your sister. You go handle it. You go. I'm not going. I'm not going.”
“Don't look at us, nobody told us what to do and we're not risking our necks guessing!”
In traditional bureaucratic structures, acting without clear orders from a superior ('City Lord') carries immense personal risk, leading underlings to strictly feign ignorance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what to do; how to handle it
Everyday staple expression for inquiring about or expressing dilemmas.
would have already known; would know by now
Used in counterfactual statements to point out the obvious impossibility of knowing beforehand.
Softens the defensive remark while highlighting the speaker's helplessness or exasperation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why didn't you guys tell me about it earlier?”
“If she'd said it earlier, it wouldn't be like this.”
“why wouldn't she tell us directly?”