确实我没一开始 没敢跟你说 是吧
“Honestly, I didn't dare tell you at first.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You can't blame anyone else. Honestly, I didn't dare tell you”
确实 我没 一开始 没敢跟你说 是吧
“Honestly, I didn't dare tell you at first.”
那个就怕你闹这个 你看这 这一说
“I feared you'd make a fuss about this. Now, look,”
“I hid it from you because I knew you would lose your temper like this.”
Withholding bad news or sensitive decisions is frequently justified in Chinese interpersonal relationships as an attempt to avoid friction or emotional scenes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at the very beginning / initially
A common temporal adverbial used to explain the chronological starting point of an event or decision.
did not dare to
Used to express hesitation, fear, or reluctance to perform an action due to anticipated consequences.
Softens the admission and seeks implicit agreement or acknowledgment from the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So think about it. Wouldn't it be too risky to tell you about this”
“I didn't tell you because you once said that once I got better,”