这么长时间 张炜压根就没想分手
“For such a long time, Zhang Wei never intended to break up with her.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It was me! So what if it were me? It was me!”
这么长 时间 张炜 压根就没想 分手
“For such a long time, Zhang Wei never intended to break up with her.”
他拿我当什么
“What did he take me for?”
“He played both of us for fools—he never intended to let her go.”
Prolonging a breakup while leading on a third party is viewed with severe moral condemnation in contemporary Chinese dating culture as deceitful 'two-timing' (脚踏两条船).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
for such a long time / all this time
Emphasizes the sustained duration during which an action or deception went unnoticed.
from the very beginning / simply not at all
An emphatic colloquial phrase used before negatives to stress complete absence of intent or truth.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“However, for reasons unknown, they broke up ten years ago.”
“We've been apart for so long,”
“Well, you've been broken up for some time.”
“you'd been separated for a long time? I thought that was a cameraman.”
“I have been away for so long.”
“So many years have passed.”