当年是我把他的行踪
“Back then, I revealed his whereabouts”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
实话告诉你
“Let me tell you the truth.”
当年是我把他的行踪
“Back then, I revealed his whereabouts”
“to Zhao Tianba and Han Yisu.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional narrative tropes, leaking a comrade's or ally's whereabouts is considered one of the highest taboos against loyalty and righteousness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
whereabouts / traces / movements
A formal and narrative term used when talking about tracking or concealing someone's physical location.
it was me who [did something] back then
Emphatic construction using the 'shi...de' framework alongside the 'ba' disposal structure to take direct ownership of an action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Should we reveal his whereabouts”
“He must be the one from back then.”
“He knows verifying his whereabouts from ten or twenty years ago”
“From what we've learned of their recent movements,”
“He left without a word back then”
“He left without a word back then”