就差一点儿 就差一点儿
“we were so close. Just a little more,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
真的
“Really,”
就差一点儿 就差一点儿
“we were so close. Just a little more,”
“and his mental defenses would have been broken. Think about it.”
“We were on the verge of breaking him; it's so frustrating that we missed it by a hair.”
Doubling a short phrase like '就差一点儿' is a common spoken Chinese device to convey intense regret or urgency.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost; nearly; just fell short
Very frequently used in daily spoken Chinese to express narrow misses or near occurrences.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we were so close. Just a little more,”
“That was so close.”
“Almost! See?”
“didn't we almost break off our relationship?”