自打段胥回到南都以后
“Ever since Duan Xu returned,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说得没错
“You're right.”
自打 段胥回到南都以后
“Ever since Duan Xu returned,”
段成章便暗中为他谋婚
“Duan Chengzhang has been secretly arranging a marriage for him.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In historical China, marriages within aristocratic or political families were strategic unions designed to consolidate political power rather than affairs of romance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ever since
A colloquial northern-origin conjunction used to establish a starting point in time, equivalent to '自从'.
to return to
A common directional complement construction used to specify returning to a place.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Duan Xu will have bad luck.”
“He's the real Duan Xu.”
“So what if I lose Duan Xu too?”
“stay by Duan Xu's side at all times.”
“He's surely not the old Duan Xu.”
“I went to kill Duan Xu.”