我们就当今晚什么都没发生过
“Let's pretend nothing happened tonight.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你可不可以陪我几天
“Can you stay with me for a few days?”
我们 就当今晚什么都没发生过
“Let's pretend nothing happened tonight.”
等到话剧结束以后
“After the play is over,”
“We crossed a line tonight, but let's agree to forget it so we don't complicate our lives.”
In Chinese interpersonal relations, mutually agreeing that a breach of decorum or boundary 'never happened' allows both parties to preserve face and resume regular interactions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
let's just treat it as / let's pretend that
Commonly used to establish a mutual tacit agreement or fiction to move past an awkward event.
nothing ever happened
A standard phrase for resetting boundaries or covering up an indiscretion.
Aspect marker indicating past experience, emphasizing that the event should leave no lingering trace.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Consider tonight's events as if they never happened.”
“pretend nothing happened.”
“Let's pretend nothing happened.”
“let's pretend nothing happened tonight.”