其实今天本来想先打电话告诉你
“Actually, I planned to call you to tell you about this,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
很有可能
“Very likely.”
其实 今天 本来想先打电话告诉你
“Actually, I planned to call you to tell you about this,”
“but Jiale suddenly sent me a WeChat message,”
“Please don't be upset; I really meant to reach out to you first.”
In interpersonal etiquette, highlighting that one 'originally intended' (本来想) to do the right thing helps preserve emotional harmony and demonstrates that the oversight was unintentional.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
actually / in fact
Used at the start of a turn to introduce the real truth, soften an explanation, or gently correct an assumption.
originally intended to
Indispensable conversational chunk for explaining unfulfilled intentions or disrupted plans.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“(The reason I called so late) (to wish you a happy new year)”
“We're calling to inform you”
“Why are you calling me so late?”