早知今日 何必当初
“If you had known.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你也不知道啊 我不知道 你看我干什么 走了啊
“You don't know it either? I don't know it. Why are you looking at me? I'm leaving.”
早知今日 何必当初
“If you had known.”
程总
“Ms. Cheng.”
“You brought this entirely on yourself, so don't come crying to me now.”
In Chinese moral philosophy, actions inevitably trigger matching karmic consequences; pointing out someone's regret with this phrase underscores their lack of foresight and invalidates their claim to victimhood.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if you knew it would end like this, why did you do it in the first place
A very common eight-character set phrase used to scold someone who regrets their actions only after facing catastrophic consequences.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How did I end up at this point?”
“You should have known better.”
“[In Perfect Safety] In the blink of an eye,”
“In a flash,”