我们几乎连话都很少说
“we almost didn't say anything to each other.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我去新加坡之前 我们只认识了一年 而且那一年
“Before I went to Singapore, we had known each other for just a year. And in that year,”
我们几乎连话都很 少说
“we almost didn't say anything to each other.”
“I really don't understand since when you began to like me”
“It makes no sense to me how you could have developed feelings for me back then when we barely even talked.”
In Chinese romantic interactions, couples often revisit the ambiguous starting point of their relationship to tease each other and reaffirm mutual affection.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost; practically
Placed before verbs or adjectives to denote that a situation is very nearly the case.
even...
A classic emphatic structure used to highlight an extreme case or baseline expectation.