如果你经常碰到一个人，你去上班时遇到他、去逛街时遇到他、去吃饭时遇到他，连在回家路上，都蓦然发现他迎面而来。这时候你可以过去跟他说："We seem to be running into each other a lot lately." “我俩最近好像常碰面!”
对话
A: Oh, hello.
B: Hello. We seem to be running into each other a lot lately.
A: Yes, we do.
B: Beautiful day, isn’t it?
A: Yes, it is.
甲：噢，你好 !
乙：你好。最近我们好像经常碰到呢 !
甲：嗯，说得也是。
乙：天气真好!
甲：嗯，是啊 !
在"We seem to be running into each other a lot lately."这个句子里，除了"running into"之外，你还可以用"bumping into". 但字面上的解释，"running into"跟"bumping into"好像是跑进什么东面、撞到什么东西，事实上这个用法绝对没有身体上的接触，而只是偶然碰上，视线上的接触而已。
We seem to be running into each other a lot lately的lately和late不同。Late是‘迟’或‘晚’，用作形容词 (adjective) 或副词 (adverb) 都可以，例如：
(1) The late student was punished.（那个迟到的学生受到惩罚。）
(2) He arrived late.（他迟到了。）第二句的late是副词，但不加“ly”，和一般副词不同。
Lately也是副词，意思是‘最近’，和recently同义，例如：He has been very quiet lately（他最近很沉默）。‘最近’的另一说法是of late，例如：He has been very quiet of late. Of late 没有lately那么常用，但和lately用法一样。
Run into / bump into somebody即‘偶然遇到某人’，此外还有happen on / come across somebody 的说法，例如：I happened on / came across an old classmate this morning.（我今早偶然碰到一个旧同学。）
人家偷偷跟着你，你说: We seem to be running into each other a lot lately. 是把‘有心跟踪’当‘无意碰上’，不当面点破，可谓客气，假如你不喜欢他这样跟着你，可直斥其非：You have been stalking me lately.（你近来常常跟踪我。） Stalk就是‘讨厌地悄悄跟踪’。明星、美丽的女郎都常常会这样给人骚扰，假如不胜其烦，可向法庭申请禁制令 (injunction)呢。