上不上电视谁知道
“Who knows?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
能上电视吗
“Will we be on TV?”
上不上电视 谁知道
“Who knows?”
在这里
“First,”
“Don't ask me, I have no control over what gets aired.”
Phrasing uncertainty as a rhetorical question ('who knows') is a standard spoken Chinese strategy to curb unreasonable expectations without explicitly saying 'no'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
who knows; beats me
A very common colloquial response used to express total uncertainty or brush off a question.
appear on television
Colloquial verb-object phrase meaning to be broadcast or featured on TV.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Can't we just see you on TV?”
“Why don't you go online? Forget it.”
“I'm not doing it.”
“I wasn't sleeping. I was watching TV.”
“They're not connected to anywhere.”
“You can't. Didn't I tell you?”