我以前就警告过你 我现在再跟你说一遍
“I warned you before, and I'm telling you again now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那个人是蒋诚吧
“That was Jiang Cheng, right?”
我 以前 就 警告过你 我现在 再跟你说一遍
“I warned you before, and I'm telling you again now.”
离我远一点
“Stay away from me.”
“This is your final warning—cross me again and you will regret it.”
In Chinese interpersonal conflict, explicitly stating that one has warned the other before serves to establish moral high ground before taking harsher action.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have already (done something) before
Use this structure to emphasize that an action already took place in the past, often when reminding someone who ignored it.
tell you one more time / repeat it to you
Used to stress the seriousness of a statement when the listener failed to listen the first time.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I have warned you long ago to manage your people well.”
“I'm warning you one last time.”
“Anyway, I'm warning you! I've warned you!”