我父母已经分居很久了
“my parents had already been separated for a long time,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我在鞍庆一中 插班的时候
“When I transferred to Anqing No.1 High School,”
我父母已经 分居 很久了
“my parents had already been separated for a long time,”
读书我也没有花 大伯家的钱
“and I never spent a cent of my uncle's family's money on my studies.”
“My family situation was complicated back then, so don't assume I had an easy ride or relied on my uncle.”
In Chinese culture, receiving financial help from extended family often creates heavy relational debts, prompting individuals to clearly assert their financial independence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
had already been living apart for a long time
A common structure (已经...很久了) used to describe a long-standing state or marital separation.
Signifies a change of state that has persisted up to the reference time in the past.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and cut off contact with my parents.”
“Are your parents and other relatives still alive?”
“And both sets of parents too. They've failed one generation.”