我不知道她这么做是为什么
“I don't know why she did this.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你认识苏醉蝶
“You know Su Zuidie?”
我不知道 她这么做是 为什么
“I don't know why she did this.”
但她不是什么好人
“Anyway, she is not a good person.”
“Don't suspect me; I can't explain her motives, but you definitely shouldn't trust her.”
In Chinese interpersonal interactions, explicitly stating incomprehension of another person's wrongful deeds is a key strategy to avoid guilt by association.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
don't know why / have no idea what the reason is
A common structure used to emphasize complete ignorance or bewilderment regarding someone's underlying motives.
acting like this / doing so
A high-frequency collocation referring to a specific behavior or action mentioned in the context.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why would she run off to the coal gangue dump”
“I don't know why,”
“- Why would she do that? - 'Cause she was never here.”
“I don't know why she”
“Why else would she cause such a huge mess?”
“He claims he had no idea she was coming, that this was last minute.”
“I wonder who she was targeting.”
“(I wonder who she was targeting.)”
“Why would he do this?”