如若没有一个人通风报信
“if no one had tipped them off”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就算她骗了我们
“Even if she deceived us,”
如若 没有 一个人 通风报信
“if no one had tipped them off”
顺手连我们的暗桩
“and handed over our undercover agents,”
“There is definitely a mole among us; they couldn't have pulled this off otherwise.”
In Chinese intrigue drama and strategic thinking, exposure of covert operations is almost invariably attributed to internal betrayal rather than external chance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to leak secrets; to tip someone off
A common idiom usually carrying a negative connotation, referring to covertly giving intelligence to adversaries.
if; supposing that
A literary and formal conditional conjunction equivalent to '如果' in everyday spoken Chinese.