但我知道我们班 有好几个人跟他走得挺近的
“But I know a few guys in our class are pretty close to him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
当然我不要
“Of course I didn't buy any.”
但 我知道 我们班 有好几个人跟他 走得挺近的
“But I know a few guys in our class are pretty close to him.”
“Which ones? Could you provide their names?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese students belong to fixed administrative classes (班) where everyone knows each other's social circles, making classmates reliable informants about individual peer networks.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
on close terms / quite close to each other
A natural metaphor describing close social relations or frequent association between individuals.
quite a few / several
A handy quantifier used in spoken Chinese to denote an indefinite small quantity.
Functions as part of the 'shì...de' construction to add categorical certainty to the descriptive statement.
