我费尽心机
“I went to great lengths”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就你走不动
“You're the only one who can't keep up.”
我 费尽心机
“I went to great lengths”
隐藏在这些死囚当中
“to hide among these death row prisoners,”
“I went through hell to pull off this disguise, so stop questioning my pace.”
Undercover endurance and enduring hardship among outcasts to achieve a grand objective is a celebrated trope in Chinese stratagems.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to rack one's brains; to exhaust all schemes
Used to describe investing enormous mental effort and strategy, often with a calculating or clandestine overtone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I used every scheme imaginable”
“(you went to great lengths)”
“I've spent years carefully working toward this!”
“I've exhausted every effort just to survive.”
“and put on such a show.”
“Pushing your brain too hard”