真没想到能看到她
“Never thought I'd see her here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
对
“- Yeah. - Van Gogh...”
真没想到 能 看到 她
“Never thought I'd see her here.”
我们一会
“- No, Haoming. - We can later”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Unexpectedly encountering an acquaintance often invokes the idea of serendipitous fate in daily Chinese conversations, prompting open astonishment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
really didn't expect
A very frequent spoken pattern to express genuine astonishment or surprise at an unforeseen outcome.
to be able to see
Used to describe achieving or experiencing the sight of someone or something.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Maybe it's a good thing that I didn't meet her. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what to talk about.”
“she… she'll never get to read them.”
“It's also a way to see if she has really figured things out.”
“I never expected you'd see me this way.”
“I didn't expect them to track me down there. But”
“But I only want to see her”