你都闻见了 我还以为
“For real? I actually thought...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I smelled her from way over here.”
你都 闻见了 我还以为
“For real? I actually thought...”
嘴闭上啊
“Shut your mouth!”
“Is it really that strong? I thought I hid it well.”
In spoken Chinese, trailing off with words like '我还以为' allows the speaker to acknowledge an awkward reality without spelling out an uncomfortable detail.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I thought that...
Used to introduce a mistaken past belief or assumption that has just been corrected.
to smell / to detect an odor
A common spoken northern Chinese resultative verb structure for perceiving an odor.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I didn't expect you to have reached the level of knowing the components just by smelling.”
“Why do I smell... smell...”
“But you still pretended you could smell it and kept lying”
“It's on you. I can smell it.”
“fills my heart with content.”
“I smelled it. It was her! She was the one who fought you just now!”