早不抓晚不抓 偏偏你们一来
“Why at this critical moment? Just as you guys arrived,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
应该是个意外吧
“it should be an accident.”
早不抓晚不抓 偏偏 你们 一来
“Why at this critical moment? Just as you guys arrived,”
就抓了他的秘书和司机 人家正在审
“his secretary and driver were arrested. They are interrogating them.”
“Don't be naive; this timing is far too convenient to be an accident.”
In Chinese detective and political narratives, extraordinary coincidences in timing are almost universally viewed as deliberate machinations rather than mere bad luck.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
neither early nor late, but precisely (at the worst/most suspicious time)
A rhetorical correlative pattern used to emphasize suspicious timing or unfortunate coincidence.
contrary to expectations / ironically / just so happens that
Used to express frustration or suspicion when something happens at the least opportune or most unexpected moment.
