我也没长前后眼
“I still couldn't see the future.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
假如时光倒流
“If I could turn back time,”
我也 没长前后眼
“I still couldn't see the future.”
也不知道会给自己招恨
“I wouldn't know I'd bring hate to myself.”
“Don't judge me with hindsight; I couldn't possibly have known what would happen.”
Using visceral colloquial imagery like having eyes in the front and back deflects moral or tactical criticism by highlighting common human limitation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to possess foresight; to have eyes front and back (predicting the future)
A colorful colloquial Northern idiom, almost always used in the negative to excuse unpredicted mistakes.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You don't have eyes either?”
“Are you blind?”
“But my eyes can't see,”
“Don't you have hands and legs?”
“I think you should check your eyes.”
“You haven't slept for days.”