之前跟你说的相亲的事
“About that blind date I mentioned,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这事且得琢磨呢
“We need to think this through.”
之前 跟你说的 相亲的事
“About that blind date I mentioned,”
“the matchmaker got back to me. You'll meet next week.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Arranged dating facilitated by relatives or intermediaries remains a prominent social mechanism for marriage in China.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the matter regarding the blind date
Used as a topic-fronting phrase when following up on arranged matchmaking arrangements.
what I mentioned to you before
A very common conversational opener to retrieve shared background information.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Are you like this on all your blind dates?”
“I wasn't joking about”
“The matter I mentioned earlier...”
“I've told you this before.”
“I wanted to talk to you about this earlier,”
“about what we discussed before,”