后来才知道他们早就发现了
“Later I realized they already knew”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
卷宗啊
“and case files.”
后来才知道他们早就发现了
“Later I realized they already knew”
只是没拆穿我罢了
“but didn't expose me.”
“I thought I was being clever, but they saw right through me all along.”
Chinese social etiquette often favors letting someone save face by privately observing errors without immediately calling them out publicly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only later did I find out
A very common narrative phrase used to introduce hindsight or delayed realization.
long ago / already
Used before verbs to emphasize that an event took place well before the speaker realized or anticipated.
Indicates a completed change of state regarding the other parties' awareness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now that their schemes are exposed,”
“he must have alerted by now.”
“They must already know Guo has escaped.”
“Turns out they've been together all along.”
“But only after all this time did we realize”