你怀了几个月 七个月了
“how many months pregnant were you? Seven months.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你老公去世的时候
“When your husband passed away,”
你 怀了几个月 七个月了
“how many months pregnant were you? Seven months.”
一年了
“It's been a year.”
“The math about when your husband died and when you got pregnant doesn't seem to add up.”
In Chinese storytelling, verifying the timeline between a husband's death and a widow's pregnancy is often a dramatic device to reveal secrets or illegitimacy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how many months pregnant
Standard conversational way to ask a pregnant woman about gestational age.
Marks an aspectual change of state indicating the elapsed duration of the pregnancy.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Since we aren't even expecting yet,”
“for three months, we knew that.”
“Maybe it's the pregnancy.”
“She's been here for half a month. You didn't know?”
“I thought there'd be three or four months left. If that had been the case,”
“One month it is. I'll post it now.”