可我遇见你之后
“but after I met you,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I didn't believe in ghosts or gods before,”
可我 遇见你之后
“but after I met you,”
“You are so extraordinary that you made me believe in miracles.”
In Chinese culture, meeting a special person who transforms one's core beliefs is attributed to pre-destined fate (yuanfen), framed here in terms of divine intervention.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
met you / crossed paths with you
Carries a poetic, fateful nuance compared to the ordinary '见到你'.
after / ever since
A standard temporal marker placed after a clause to denote a subsequent turning point.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Next time we meet, let's see whose skills have gotten better.”
“you will eventually run into me someday in the future.”
“But ever since the day I met you,”
“And then I met you.”