不久前是多久前？
“What's a while ago?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
科林就说环境署不久前把它关闭了
“Colin just said the EA closed it off a while ago.”
不久前是多久前 ？
“What's a while ago?”
他没说
“He didn't say.”
“Don't give me vague timelines; give me concrete dates.”
In professional investigations, speakers deliberately echo and unpack vague terms like 'recently' to hold parties accountable and eliminate administrative ambiguity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not long ago / recently
A common temporal adverbial used to denote an unspecified recent past.
how long ago
A direct interrogative structure used to demand specific duration or timing relative to the present.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“About a month ago,”
“Over a hundred days ago...”
“When was this? A year ago?”
“over a month ago.”
“About half a year ago.”
“It's been so many days!”