我前面已经说过了
“I've said it before.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我前面 已经 说过了
“I've said it before.”
“Watching her from afar was enough for me.”
“Stop asking me about confessing; I have already made peace with my choice.”
Unspoken devotion (monu shouhu) without confessing is often romanticized in Chinese pop culture as a noble, selfless form of love that avoids burdening the other person.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have already stated earlier / previously mentioned
Use this spoken phrase to politely or slightly impatiently remind someone that a topic has already been covered.
Functions as an aspectual marker indicating a completed action and reinforcing the finality of the statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“As I have said before,”
“I've told you this before.”
“As I mentioned in the first class,”
“you've already had an answer to this question.”
“I've already told you everything I know.”
“I explained it to him before.”