我哪能想到我能赚这么多钱啊
“How could I have known I'd earn this much money?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那我以前都不敢想
“I wouldn't have dared to imagine that before.”
我 哪能 想到我 能赚 这么多钱 啊
“How could I have known I'd earn this much money?”
我们是志不在此
“Our hearts just aren't in it.”
“I am completely amazed by how rich I've become; it feels surreal.”
Framing success as something beyond one's wildest imagination allows the speaker to boast without sounding overly arrogant, ascribing the result partly to fortune.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
who would have thought; how could anyone imagine
A very common colloquial rhetorical pattern used to introduce surprising or unexpected outcomes.
Enhances emotional resonance and exclamation, emphasizing the speaker's genuine amazement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and it turned out to be so profitable.”
“I never wanted to earn money. If I did, that's purely coincidental.”