call someone’s bluff, terrible deed,bamboozle-神推しが使ってた英語で英作【英作 for 推し #11】

2025/10/23 Day1379

昨日に続いて、今日もShioriがコミュニティポストで書いていた英語を使う。

あのポスト、普段の配信ではなかなか聞かない表現がたくさん入ってたから、使いたい英語がたくさんあるんだ。

My Original Sentence

Is there any characters who threaten protagonists and won them in the end in anime?
When villains use some threatening words, I call their bluff.
They definitely can’t defeat protagonists, even though they try to bamboozle them and do a terrible deed.

Room for improvement (By ChatGPT)

“characters who threaten protagonists and won them in the end”

Tense mix is off (“threaten” is present, “won” is past). Also, we usually say “defeat them,” not “win them.”
確かにthreatenは違和感あるか。時制をwonと合わせてないから。

そもそもwon themも不自然らしい。themを使うならdefeat them。あとの文で使ってるけどここではwonにした。

“characters who threaten the protagonists and actually win in the end” is more natural.

あと、charactersなのでis thereじゃなくてare thereだね。

“When villains use some threatening words”

“Some threatening words” sounds a bit too generic or literal.
言われてみれば、そのまんま過ぎて味気ないか。

“When villains say threatening things” / “When villains make threats.” is more Native-like

“even though they try to bamboozle them and do a terrible deed.”

Grammatically fine, but slightly odd rhythm. “Do a terrible deed” feels too formal for this context.

“Deed” literally means an action or something done, but it’s not very common in everyday casual speech.

It often appears in serious, literary, or historical contexts:

“a noble deed,” “a heroic deed,” “a wicked deed,” “a good deed.”
→ These sound like phrases from stories, moral lessons, or older English.

In casual modern English, people almost always say “thing,” “act,” “action,” or just use a verb directly:
“They pulled some awful trick.”
“They did something terrible.”
“They committed a terrible act.”

でもdeed使いたいのでそのまま使う。

Other:“They definitely can’t defeat protagonists”

Missing “the”っていわれたけど、別に特定のprotagonistsを指しているわけじゃないからいらないと思うと言ったら、リズムとして、なんかtheを入れたくなるって言われた。
そういう、リズム的に入れたくなるtheもあるんだね。

Edited Sentence By ChatGPT

Are there any characters in anime who threaten the protagonists and actually win in the end?
When villains say threatening things, I usually call their bluff.
They definitely can’t defeat the protagonists, even though they try to bamboozle them and commit a terrible deed.