还是把人给惊到了
“But we still scared them away.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
早上我说的时候 以为还没事呢
“When I said it this morning, I thought it was fine.”
还是 把人给惊到了
“But we still scared them away.”
“If only we have arrested him this morning.”
“We messed up and blew our cover.”
In Chinese tactical mindset, inadvertently tipping off an opponent ('hitting the grass and startling the snake') is viewed as a major operational blunder in both policing and underworld rivalries.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to startle / to scare / to alert
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe startling someone or tipping them off inadvertently.
still / nonetheless / after all
Used here to emphasize an undesirable outcome that occurred despite hopes or efforts to prevent it.
Marks the completion of the action and signals an undesirable change of state that has already taken effect.
