没想到他是个好警察
“Turns out he's a good cop.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
贪了五个亿了
“I thought he really embezzled 500 million.”
没想到 他是个 好警察
“Turns out he's a good cop.”
“You were bluffing me from the very start.”
“I was totally wrong about him; he is honest, which means someone lied to me.”
Public officials and police officers in Chinese discourse are frequently evaluated along stark moral lines of being righteous versus corrupt ('hao' vs 'tan').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
didn't expect / never thought that
Used to express an unexpected realization upon discovering the truth.
good cop / honest police officer
A common evaluation denoting integrity and duty in legal or investigative contexts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“he's a good copper, better than most.”
“He might not have been a good policeman,”
“no one said he wasn't a good police officer.”
“I didn't expect you to become a police officer.”
“Every time I go to town for business, that cop gives me trouble.”
“Don't forget you're a cop.”