你早进去了
“you'd be locked up already.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那天晚上要不是我
“If I hadn't helped that night,”
你早 进去了
“you'd be locked up already.”
被警察冲
“You deserved”
“You owe me big time because I kept you out of prison.”
In colloquial Chinese, '进去' (to go inside) is universally understood as a euphemism for being sent to jail or prison.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
would have ended up in jail long ago
Common slang where '进去' (go inside) euphemistically means being imprisoned or detained.
Indicates a realized hypothetical state or change of status in counterfactual past contexts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You should have said so earlier.”
“You knew my identity long ago?”
“I came early, so I just came in first.”
“You guessed it was me.”
“You should have said so earlier.”
“You should've said that earlier— we've been waiting for you.”