可惜你机关算尽
“too bad you planned it all”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
乔素清
“Qiao Suqing,”
可惜 你 机关算尽
“too bad you planned it all”
“You thought you were so clever and covered all your tracks, but you're busted.”
Originating from classical literature such as Dream of the Red Chamber, this idiom embodies the belief that overcalculating leads to one's own undoing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to exhaust all clever schemes / calculate every detail obsessively
A classic idiom often used pejoratively to describe someone whose over-elaborate plots ultimately backfire.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“For all your plotting, you forgot one thing.”
“conniving”
“Unfortunately, there are too few people like you.”
“But he's not here.”
“Your mechanism was not perfect. You moved the timeline up.”
“You even said "cherish."”