只是跟我想得不太一样
“but it was different from what I'd thought.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
很顺利
“Yes,”
只是 跟我想得不太一样
“but it was different from what I'd thought.”
他们看中了我 想让我去演孙梨的替身
“They were interested in me and wanted me to be a stand-in for Sun Li.”
“It wasn't completely a victory; there is a catch that caught me off guard.”
Chinese speakers frequently use understated hedges like 'not quite the same' rather than blunt negatives to soften awkward or mixed outcomes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it's just that; only
Used at the start of a clause to introduce a gentle contradiction, reservation, or caveat.
not quite what I thought/expected
A polite, understated way to express discrepancy between expectations and reality without sounding overly negative.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You're a bit different from what I thought.”
“but to me, it means something different.”
“You look different from what I imagined.”