咱俩心里都有数
“We both know that.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我也看见你了
“I saw you too.”
咱俩 心里都有数
“We both know that.”
那是因为我跟我同学说
“That's because I told my classmates you have”
“Stop making excuses, neither of us is fooling the other.”
Chinese interpersonal communication often relies heavily on unspoken mutual awareness, where explicitly stating 'we both know' serves to pierce false pretenses.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to know what's what; to have a clear idea; to know in one's heart
A highly frequent idiom used when someone understands the situation well without needing explicit explanations.
the two of us
Colloquial northern Chinese pronoun creating a close, shared bond between speaker and listener.