你也说了 他们是有备而来的
“As you said, they came prepared.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The detention centre also treats people.”
你也 说了 他们是 有备而来 的
“As you said, they came prepared.”
“They obviously wanted to kill me.”
“You know how lethal they are, so stop downplaying this danger!”
In Chinese strategic thinking, someone coming 'fully prepared' against you implies an asymmetrical, deliberate threat that requires immediate counter-measures.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to come fully prepared / to act with premeditated intent
An idiomatic four-character idiom describing adversaries who planned their offensive meticulously.
as you yourself noted / you said so yourself
A pragmatic discourse marker used to borrow the listener's authority to back one's argument.
Used at the end of the clause to emphatically categorize the opponents' premeditated actions.
