既然这一切都是由我开始的
“I started all this,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我懂了
“Now I get it.”
既然这一切都是由我开始的
“I started all this,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
A core moral virtue in Chinese culture where an individual honorably assumes total responsibility for problems they initiated.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since / now that
A formal conjunction used to establish a premise that leads to an inevitable conclusion or action.
started by me
Used to acknowledge agency or responsibility for initiating a sequence of events.
Emphasizes the agent and circumstances of the past action within the shi...de construction.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It was all because of me.”
“From beginning to end, he was the one who confessed to me.”
“and left everything to me.”
“From start to finish, when did I ever mention Consort Shu?”
“Everything started because of you.”
“I heard every book of yours starts with this line.”
“Our whole lives would basically reset.”
“and left it all to me.”
“It seems I'm the one to blame for all this.”