就是你刚来局里那会儿
“When you first came to the department.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在哪儿
“Where?”
就是你 刚 来局里 那会儿
“When you first came to the department.”
就在咱局门口
“Right at the entrance.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese public sector culture, employees colloquially refer to their work unit as 'the bureau' (局里) to signal shared institutional belonging.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
back when someone first arrived at...
A common spoken structure used to set a retrospective timeframe when reminiscing about past days.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I just got here. It shouldn't have anything to do with me, right?”
“I just got employed. I'm probably just someone doing chores.”
“That's not what you said when you first joined the Ministry of Revenue.”
“When I first joined the company, someone told me”
“Is this your first day at work?”
“We've all been where you are now.”