早知道我去什么南京 送什么剑
“I shouldn't have gone to Nanjing and delivered the sword.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你还打我
“And you hit me.”
早知道 我去 什么 南京 送 什么 剑
“I shouldn't have gone to Nanjing and delivered the sword.”
我把剑卖了换了钱 我早就到武汉了
“If I had sold the sword for money, I would've arrived in Wuhan long ago.”
“I should have never gotten involved in this mess for you.”
Chinese speakers frequently use rhetorical questions with '什么' to strongly repudiate an entire line of action when venting extreme exasperation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if only I had known earlier
A common spoken phrase used to introduce hindsight regret or a counterfactual desire.
why deliver any sword at all
The rhetorical construction 'Verb + 什么 + Noun' expresses total dismissal or regret toward the action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I came to Nanjing to find more connections”
“You're the one who came to Nanjing”
“I will definitely go to Nanjing.”
“I'm going to Nanjing for something serious— the birthday inkstick competition.”
“I came from Nanjing to Shanghai just to find him.”
“Do you know whose ground you're standing on? [Daughter of Commander Wu] Exactly.”