想着再也见不着面了
“I thought we'd never meet again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说搬去上海那会儿
“When you moved to Shanghai,”
想着 再也 见不着面 了
“I thought we'd never meet again.”
没想到还能在一块儿喝口
“I didn't expect that we'd be able to have a drink together”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Catching up over alcohol after long separations is a central ritual in Chinese culture to mend the emotional distance caused by migration.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
unable to meet / cannot see each other
A colloquial spoken potential complement expressing impossibility of seeing someone.
Marks a change of state or situation regarding past expectations.