他从昨天起就失联了 手机关机
“He has been out of touch since yesterday. His phone is off”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还有市府研究室的 谭思言
“with Tan Siyan from the Municipal Government Research Office.”
他从昨天起就 失联 了 手机关机
“He has been out of touch since yesterday. His phone is off”
也没去单位上班
“and he didn't go to work.”
“Something bad has happened to him; he did not just wander off.”
In Chinese institutional culture, an employee failing to report to work and cutting off phone contact without leave is treated as an alarming anomaly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
lose contact / be unreachable
A concise modern contraction of losing communication, very common in news, investigations, and emergencies.
starting from / since
A standard temporal structure used to specify when an ongoing condition or state began.
Marks a completed change of state regarding the person's status of being unreachable.
