当初你们沆瀣一气
“You two were in this together from the start.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你不会不知道吧
“Surely you haven't forgotten.”
当初 你们 沆瀣一气
“You two were in this together from the start.”
想到过会有今天吗
“Did you ever think this day would come?”
“You were so smug when you schemed together, but your reckoning has come.”
Chinese culture frequently invokes the moral certainty that malicious collusion and dishonest behavior will eventually suffer retribution.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to act in cahoots; to collude with villains
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) with strong negative connotations, used to criticize people scheming together.
at that time; back then
Commonly used when contrasting a past attitude or mistake with the current negative consequences.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They went in and out together back then.”
“What led to today was caused by both of you.”
“Back then, you and your husband said,”
“What you did back then—”
“When that couple of great doctors”
“So you were behind it before too.”