早已看遍人间险恶
“I had already seen the full extent of human wickedness.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
自己阅案无数
“that, having handled countless cases,”
早已看遍 人间险恶
“I had already seen the full extent of human wickedness.”
但谁知
“But little did I know,”
“I thought I had seen the worst of humanity, but I was wrong.”
In traditional narrative tropes, experienced figures often pride themselves on seeing through '人间险恶' (human wickedness), only to be humbled by unprecedented moral dilemmas.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have seen all of / to have thoroughly witnessed
A resultative complement construction indicating exhaustive personal experience.
the evils and dangers of the mortal world
A literary four-character idiom describing the malice, deceit, and cruelty found in human society.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we are used to the dark sides of human nature.”
“I've already seen enough of that in real life.”
“How many absurd things in the world”