Why didn't you say something?

为什么你不跟他说？

youdao

Driver: Oh, why didn't you say so?

司机：哦，你为什么不这样说？

youdao

M: Oh, why didn't you say it's an emergency?

M：啊，怎么不说是急诊？

youdao

"Well,why didn't you say so? Just sign it and all your problems will disappear."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Then you say, well why didn't they divide by 365, because I know there are 365 days in a year?

也许你们会问,为什么他们不除以365,因为一年有365天

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My point here is not to say, oh, you idiot, Plato, why didn't you think of radio waves?

我这里不是想说，柏拉图，你真傻，你为什么没想到无线电波呢？

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And I guess there still hasn't been a clear sort of response from you guys as to why you didn't use every tool you could have used even in that, say, 24-hour period before he was Mirandized.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

Why didn't the government act sooner against the mosque, which, as you say, had been an irritant for months with the clerics conducting a Taliban-style morality campaign actually in the capital?

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So I think it's easy to sort of armchair-quarterback this thing and say you could have done this, you could have done that, why didn't you do this.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton