她早就知道了
“She had known all along.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你怎么总在叫啊
“Why are you always barking?”
她 早就知道了
“She had known all along.”
她把我给她的饮料倒掉
“She poured out the drink I gave her.”
“She saw right through me the whole time.”
In interpersonal dynamics, realizing the other person has seen through one's schemes or unspoken motives brings humiliation and total loss of strategic leverage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
already knew all along / knew for a long time
Uses '早就' to stress that knowledge or realization occurred much earlier than expected.
Marks the completed realization of a persistent prior state.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Xue Qin must have known the truth all along.”
“She found out everything—”
“How would I know she had already left?”
“So she had depression long ago?”
“she's long been accustomed to physical contact.”
“He's long since sided with the Emperor. What does that matter?”
“they already knew what was going to happen”
“When he finds out, it'll be too late.”
“There's no way Terry doesn't know.”
“but she had watched it her whole life. She understood it.”