我就说有这个电报局
“I knew there was this telegraph office.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这普通人用一生的时间 都不可能把这些都记住的
“Even a lifetime wouldn't be enough for an ordinary person to memorize all of this.”
我就说 有 这个 电报局
“I knew there was this telegraph office.”
我怎么可能记错呢
“No way my memory was off.”
“See? I told you so, my memory is exceptional.”
Asserting correctness after someone doubted you is a common way to recover face and demonstrate personal competence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I told you so / as I said
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to emphasize that one's previous prediction or statement has just been proven right.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Sir, this place has always been a bank. I've never heard of a telegraph office.”
“I just checked in at the station.”
“If we only have telegrams,”
“A telegram from the Shanghai garrison.”
“Wasn't this place the Danan Telegraph Office before? How did it become a bank?”
“I want to make a trip to the Telecom Bureau, and call my chief editor.”