那要是这么说的话 他们在这儿挖了很长时间了
“If that's the case, they've been digging here for a long time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
看来这些就是之前失踪的船客
“Looks like these are the missing passengers from those ships.”
那 要是这么说的话 他们 在这 儿挖了很长时间了
“If that's the case, they've been digging here for a long time.”
“What exactly is down in this reef? Go down now!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Phrases like '要是这么说的话' signal active listening and collective deduction, validating the interlocutor's clue while extending the discovery.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if that's the case; judging by that logic
A very natural conversational transitional chunk used to build an inference upon someone else's prior observation.
a long time
Common everyday phrase to express an extended duration.
Part of the conditional frame '要是...的话', softening the assertion into a conditional conjecture.
Indicates an action extending up to the present moment, emphasizing accumulated duration.
