你居然一无所知 有点说不过去吧
“and yet you're telling me you knew nothing? That doesn't quite hold water, does it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Something this serious happened on your watch,”
你居然 一无所知 有点 说不过去 吧
“and yet you're telling me you knew nothing? That doesn't quite hold water, does it?”
是 这确实是我典司内部出了问题 臣愿承担
“Yes. Problems did arise within my bureau. I am willing to accept punishment”
“Feigning ignorance will not save you from accountability.”
In Chinese organizational culture, especially historical administration, a leader or department head bears ultimate responsibility (lianzuo/zeren) regardless of whether they personally committed the wrongdoing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
completely clueless; knowing nothing at all
A formal idiom used to emphasize absolute ignorance of an event or situation.
unjustifiable; unreasonable; hard to justify
Used to point out that an explanation or behavior does not make sense or violates basic expectations.
Softens the accusation grammatically into an assumption while functionally delivering a sharp, inescapable indictment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And I had no idea.”
“I didn't know you still thought like that.”
“And you dare claim you knew nothing about any of this?”
“and none of you noticed a thing?”