一直躲到天亮才回宅子
“We stayed until dawn, then went back to the house.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们不敢出来
“We didn't dare come out.”
一直 躲到天亮 才 回宅子
“We stayed until dawn, then went back to the house.”
一开门
“The moment we opened the door,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In historical and mystery fiction, large traditional family compounds (宅子) are often sites of sudden violence where servants and common folk must hide until daylight brings safety.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
continuously; all the way until
Used before a verb to emphasize an uninterrupted action or continuous state over time.
not until... did...
A classic conditional pattern expressing that the latter action was delayed until a specific point.
