本来他拿我没辙
“He couldn't do anything to me before.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他现在逼我去杀人
“Now he's forcing me to kill someone.”
本来 他拿我 没辙
“He couldn't do anything to me before.”
你倒好
“But look at you—”
“I had everything under control until you completely messed it up.”
Highlighting previous stability with '本来' serves as rhetorical framing in Chinese arguments to make the other person bear full responsibility for the fallout.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be unable to do anything about someone; to have no leverage against
A very vivid Northern colloquial idiom indicating total helplessness or lack of leverage over someone.
originally / at first
Frequently used at the start of a sentence to introduce an initial positive state that was subsequently ruined.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I was the one who gave him the idea.”
“He's always disliked me.”
“didn't we use it for something else?”
“and he repaid me with "not close."”
“It's OK. I shouldn't have told you about this audition.”
“I failed him.”