眨眼的工夫就不见了
“It disappeared in the blink of an eye.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没有
“No.”
眨眼的工夫就不见了
“It disappeared in the blink of an eye.”
鸽子
“Pigeons.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Colloquial Chinese frequently uses physiological reflex units like 'the time of a blink' (眨眼的工夫) to evoke visual immediacy rather than using abstract temporal units.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the blink of an eye; within a split second
A highly colloquial temporal chunk used to stress how astonishingly fast an event occurred.
disappeared; gone missing
A fundamental oral expression indicating the sudden absence of a person or object.
Indicates a change of state, marking that the object is now absent.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“(She's gone in the blink of an eye.) Okay.”
“and it was night. He disappeared in the blink of an eye.”
“It's been so long since we last met.”