那天在港口跟你说的
“what I told you at the port that day”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可是
“But...”
那 天 在港口跟你说的
“what I told you at the port that day”
都是真的
“was true.”
“Please believe me; I did not lie about how I felt.”
In Chinese interpersonal dynamics, bringing up a specific shared location and moment serves to ground an emotional confession in shared authentic history.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
that day at the port/harbor
A common spoken time-and-place framing used to recall a specific shared memory.
what (I) told you
A colloquial nominalization used to refer back to previously stated words or promises.