所以她并非总是直接回家
“So she didn't always go straight home.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
署名是“S”
“Signed, "S."”
所以 她 并非总是 直接回家
“So she didn't always go straight home.”
“S”又是谁？
“Who the fuck is "S"?”
“She was leading a double life and meeting someone secretly.”
Using '并非' rather than simple '不是' elevates the register slightly, signaling rigorous logical deduction and critical evaluation of facts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
really not; by no means
A formal and emphatic negation used to counter an assumption or state a logical contradiction.
go straight home
A common collocation used to describe returning home immediately without making intermediate stops.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He's not coming home again.”
“What can she do if you don't go home?”
“isn't your home actually that way?”
“He said… He said that he wants you to be free and happy,”
“and haven't really been back since.”
“It's not that I don't want to take you home.”