以前从来没有听你提起过
“You never mentioned it before.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就挺意外的
“It's just unexpected.”
以前 从来没有听你提起过
“You never mentioned it before.”
那都是好几年前的事了
“That happened years ago,”
“I thought I knew you well, why did you keep this a secret from me?”
In Chinese relationships, expressing surprise that a close friend or colleague withheld personal history is a common conversational way to build closer rapport and probe for personal stories.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
never before
Emphatic negation indicating something has not occurred at any point up to the present.
brought up / mentioned
Common collocation with conversational topics or people from the past.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You've never mentioned it before.”
“Why didn't you mention this before?”
“Why didn't you tell me about it before?”