当时我真的以为是一场意外
“At the time, I really thought it was an accident.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“that Yao Baiyuan might have been killed by Xu Meng?”
当时我 真的 以为是一场意外
“At the time, I really thought it was an accident.”
“Don't blame me for overlooking it; I was completely deceived back then.”
In Chinese discourse, '以为' nearly always implies that the speaker's past presumption turned out to be false, conveying self-justification or retrospective realization.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an accident
Standard collocation using the measure word '场' (cháng) for unexpected life events or disasters.
falsely thought / assumed
Expresses an assumption that turned out to be mistaken or incorrect in hindsight.