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我想不出还会有谁。
I don’t understand how to parse this. Is it [i][cant think of][still can][there is who]? How does that translate to “i can’t think of of anyone else”? I just see a string of verbs that don’t really logically lead to the English translation.
In English, we might say something quite similar:
I can't think of who else [we] will have.
The context might be someone organizing a party. (Note, the "we" here is grammatically required in English, but not part of the Chinese.)
So maybe it's easier to understand if it were broken down in the following way:
我想不出还会有谁。
I [我] can’t think [想不出] of who [谁] else [还] [we] will [会] have [有].
I can't think of who else [we] will have.
And (depending on context) it might be more natural to translate it to something simple:
I can’t think of anyone else.
There are other ways to translate "I can’t think of anyone else" into Chinese (e.g. 我想不出其他人), and which is appropriate depends on context.
A bit more context would make it clear.
我想不出 = I can't figure it out, I can't think, I can't imagine
还会有谁 = who else
