但我试了以后我发现 我不可以
“But after trying, I realized I couldn't.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I really thought I could do this. I wanted to give it a try.”
但我试了以后 我发现 我 不可以
“But after trying, I realized I couldn't.”
可能是我不会谈恋爱了吧
“Maybe I just don't know how to date someone anymore.”
“I tried to force feelings for you, but I just don't feel that way, so we need to stop.”
In Chinese relationship discourse, rejecting someone by attributing the failure to one's own emotional incompetence preserves the other person's face and minimizes interpersonal hurt.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
after trying / once I gave it a try
A common temporal construction used to report experiential conclusions after an attempt.
I cannot / I'm unable to do it
Used colloquially to express an emotional or psychological inability rather than just physical incapability.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How will you know if you don't try?”
“but I can try. I think you can do it.”
“I want to try again. I'm sure I can do it.”
“Let me try one more time, please. Just one more time. Alright.”
“I can't do that.”
“I really thought I could do this. I wanted to give it a try.”