Name: 學英文慣用語：「假裝傻瓜」與「瞎貓碰上死老鼠」！ (Learn the English Phrases "to play dumb" and "dumb luck")
Uploaded: 2026-02-18T15:49:14.000Z
Duration: 4 min 1 s

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to play dumb.

在今天的英文課，我想教大家學一個英文片語：play dumb。

In English, when you play dumb, it means you pretend you don't know something when you actually do.

在英文裡，play dumb 的意思就是明明知道，卻假裝不知道。

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The most common example would be when someone does something they're not supposed to, and

最常見的例子就是，當有人做了不該做的事，

then when asked about it, they might play dumb.

然後被問到時，他們可能會 play dumb。

If you watch a TV show and the cops arrest the criminal, the criminal might play dumb and say, I don't know what you're talking about.

如果你看電視影集，警察抓到罪犯，罪犯可能會 play dumb，說：「我不知道你在說什麼。」

As a teacher, sometimes I'll catch students doing something and then when I ask them what they were doing, they play dumb.

身為老師，有時候我會抓到學生在做壞事，然後我問他們在做什麼，他們就會 play dumb。

They pretend that they didn't do what I saw them do.

他們假裝沒做我看到他們做的事情。

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is dumb luck.

另外一個今天想教大家的片語是 dumb luck。

Dumb luck simply means that something happens to you that's good and it's not because of anything that you've done to make it happen.

Dumb luck 簡單來說，就是一件好事發生在你身上，但這並不是因為你做了什麼讓它發生的。

So a great example of this would be you suddenly.

所以一個很好的例子就是你突然。

A good example of dumb luck would be you're driving along and you lose control of car in the snow, but

傻人有傻福的一個好例子就是你開車開到一半，在雪地裡失控了，但是

But it has nothing to do with you steering properly or anything.

這跟你操控得好不好一點關係都沒有。

You didn't go in the ditch because of dumb luck.

你沒有掉進溝裡是因為傻人有傻福。

So to review, to play dumb means to pretend you don't know something when you actually do, usually when someone's accusing you of doing something wrong.

所以總結一下，裝傻的意思是當你實際上知道某件事，卻假裝不知道，通常是在有人指控你做錯事的時候。

And dumb luck simply means to be extremely lucky.

而傻人有傻福就是指非常幸運。

And you had no, not because of anything that you did.

而且這跟你一點關係都沒有，不是因為你做了什麼。

Sorry, I'm a little distracted with all the traffic this morning.

抱歉，我早上有點被車潮影響到，有點分心。

I'm doing this during morning rush hour in my town.

我是在我這裡的上班尖峰時間錄的。

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

不過，嘿，我們來看看之前影片的一則留言。

Yes, my son likes to use the expression, oh, shoot from time to time.

沒錯，我兒子偶爾會說「噢，糟糕」。

And my response is it's better than the alternative, which is kind of a minor, vulgar word.

我的回覆是，這總比說那個比較粗俗的詞好多了。

And then Tammy says, you can say that again.

所以，對，我人就在我住的鎮上。

Let me get you guys a little further away so you can see a bit more.

讓我離遠一點，讓你們看得更清楚一點。

You can see behind me that, well, there's a school bus over there because kids are getting picked up for school.

你們看我身後，嗯，那裡有臺學校巴士，因為孩子們正要搭車去上學。

As you know, I teach in the afternoon now.

你們知道的，我現在下午才教課。

So I'm here in the morning shooting my video.

Yes, I did leave my tripod all by itself over there on the sidewalk.

對，我把腳架自己留在路邊了。

There I am in the window shooting my video on a nice quiet morning here in town.

在這個寧靜的早晨，我在窗邊拍著我的影片。

One, in spite of the fact that I love winter, I do find it way easier to make videos when the weather's a bit warmer.

第一，雖然我愛冬天，但我發現天氣暖和一點的時候拍影片真的容易多了。

You can see that I'm just wearing a jacket right now.

你們可以看到我現在只穿了件外套。

You can see I'm just wearing a light jacket right now.

你們可以看到我現在只穿了件薄外套。

You can see that people are out and about, just wearing a ball cap instead of a winter hat.

你們可以看到大家都在外面走動，只戴著一頂球帽，而不是冬帽。

There's even just people standing, checking their phones.

甚至有人只是站著，在滑手機。

Like even just last week or a week and a half ago, that would not have been happening.

其實，就連上個禮拜或禮拜半前，這種情況都不可能發生。

It was far too cold for people to be outside and being somewhat leisure or to be moving at a slower pace.

那時候天氣實在太冷了，大家根本不可能在外面悠閒地或慢慢地走動。

So in spite of the fact that I love winter, I must admit it is much nicer being out here today.

所以，雖然我愛冬天，但我得承認今天在這裡真的舒服多了。

I am putting my hand in my pocket occasionally though, just to warm it up a little bit.

我偶爾還是會把手伸進口袋裡，稍微暖一下。

But yeah, this is just much nicer than it was.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this little English lesson and I'll see you next week with another one.

總之，希望大家喜歡這小小的英文課，我們下禮拜再見囉！