我一个人也习惯了
“I'm also used to being alone.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也挺好的
“at home together.”
我 一个人 也 习惯了
“I'm also used to being alone.”
你不也一个人嘛
“Aren't you alone, too?”
“Don't feel sorry for me; I've learned to deal with being by myself.”
In contemporary Chinese urban culture, acknowledging being alone while claiming to be used to it is a common face-saving way to demonstrate self-reliance despite societal pressures to marry.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
by oneself; alone
Widely used in daily spoken Chinese to describe doing activities solo or living as a single person.
gotten used to it; accustomed to
Use this phrase to indicate that an initially difficult or unusual situation has become second nature.
Marks a change of state, showing that the speaker has now transitioned into being accustomed to solitude.
