即便你没有自作聪明地 放置这些包装
“Even without you planting those wrappers,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
从未间断
“He has never stopped since he started spying on Wang Xiaole.”
即便 你没有 自作聪明 地 放置这些 包装
“Even without you planting those wrappers,”
我们也还是一样 会调查到牛博生
“we would have traced it back to Niu Bosheng anyway.”
“Your petty tricks didn't fool anyone, and you were caught regardless.”
In Chinese legal enforcement settings, investigators often use psychological pressure to show suspects that their clever maneuvers were pointless, urging full confession.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even if / even though
A formal conjunction used to introduce a hypothetical condition that does not alter the inevitable outcome.
to think oneself clever; to outsmart oneself
A common derogatory idiom used when someone's clever ploy backfires or proves foolish.
Adverbial marker connecting the descriptive idiom to the main verb.
