你们不是打小一块儿长大的吗
“Didn't you grow up together?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那你为啥不喜欢他呀
“Then why don't you like him?”
你们 不是 打小一块儿长大 的吗
“Didn't you grow up together?”
也是
“True.”
“You two have known each other forever, so how can you not feel anything for him?”
Chinese culture places romanticized value on childhood companions turning into lovers, making a failure to fall in love puzzling to peers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since childhood; from when one was young
A highly colloquial northern Mandarin expression equivalent to 从小.
together
A classic everyday spoken variant of 一起, commonly with Beijing/Northern rhotacization.
Transforms the negative assertion into a rhetorical confirmation-seeking question.