若是往日 你说的这些话倒是有可能
“If it were in the past, what you said might have been possible.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我求求您救救戚九 我求求您救救戚九
“Please save Qi Jiu! Please save Qi Jiu!”
若是 往日 你说 的这些话 倒是有可能
“If it were in the past, what you said might have been possible.”
但是现在 在田家背后的 是南京守备吴汝
“But now, the one behind the Tian family is Wu Ru, the Commander of Nanjing.”
“Stop begging; the situation has completely changed and I cannot help you now.”
Chinese speakers often soften harsh rejections by validating the petitioner's logic in theory before highlighting insurmountable real-world obstacles.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it were in the past / normally
A literary yet common spoken conditional phrase used to contrast past feasibility with present difficulty.
might actually be possible
Use '倒' to grant a concession before introducing a decisive counter-argument or limitation.
