你是不知道我是谁
“You don't know who I am.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那我说老哥们儿
“Well, my old friend.”
你是不知道 我是谁
“You don't know who I am.”
我叫马好运
“My name is Lucky Ma.”
“You clearly don't know who you're dealing with, let me tell you.”
Stating that someone doesn't know who you are is a rhetorical device used to grab attention or assert presence before self-introduction.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not know who I am
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to introduce oneself dramatically or assert personal importance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't know what you're talking about. You already know very well who I am.”
“Do you?”
“Don't know? Aren't you my best friend? Why wouldn't you know?”
“You don't know how they treated Ju. Cook for them? I won't.”
“I really don't know who he is.”
“Everyone knows you're Xia Xiaolan”
“I don't know. Who are you?”
“I don't even know your name.”
“I don't even know who you are.”
“You don't know how difficult it was to find you in the last few days.”
“Do you know who I am?”
“I don't know. I don't know what you mean.”
“But if I don't know who I am,”
“Now I don't even know who I am.”
“Don't you know who I am?”