之前是我们有眼不识泰山
“we failed to recognize your greatness before.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
樊都尉
“Commandant Fan,”
之前 是我 们有眼不识泰山
“we failed to recognize your greatness before.”
多有得罪了
“Please forgive our offense.”
“Please don't hold our previous disrespect against us; we didn't realize who you were.”
Admitting ignorance through established humble idioms allows an inferior to appease an offended superior without totally destroying their own face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to fail to recognize a person of great stature or talent
A classic idiomatic phrase used self-deprecatingly when realizing someone is much more important than assumed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I failed to recognize a great man.”
“We didn't know who we were dealing with.”
“It is not as if we have never met.”
“I was so blind back then!”