我爸都跟您离婚十几年了 不是一家人了
“He divorced you over a decade ago. We aren't family.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也不好
“outsiders out of it.”
我爸 都跟您 离婚 十几年 了 不是一家人 了
“He divorced you over a decade ago. We aren't family.”
周小姐告诉我的情况是
“Ms. Zhou told me”
“You have no right to meddle in our lives anymore—stay out of our business.”
While Chinese culture heavily values kinship obligations, explicitly invoking 'not family' (不是一家人) is a potent conversational boundary used to strip away moral claims to assistance or deference.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
over ten years; a decade or more
A common time expression used to emphasize a substantial and indisputable length of time.
not family; not part of the same household
Used to denote emotional distance or formal separation from kinship obligations.
Indicates a permanent change of state in relationships, stressing that the familial connection has long ended.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“my parents had already been separated for a long time,”
“We've already been separated for so long.”
“Since my parents divorced,”
“It's been so many years, and no family has ever shown up.”
“who support Feng Shengli in breaking ties with his father.”
“My sister-in-law wanted a divorce and tried to take the kids away on multiple occasions.”