又是晚上 人眨眼之间就不见了
“and it was night. He disappeared in the blink of an eye.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
孙世涛一急之下 竟然跳进了水泡子 当时水流湍急
“In a moment of panic, Sun Shitao actually jumped into the pool. The water was rushing fast then,”
又是 晚上 人 眨眼之间 就 不见了
“and it was night. He disappeared in the blink of an eye.”
现在已经半个多月了
“It's been over half a month now.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese administrative or investigative dialogues, speakers present compound external factors (nighttime, swift waters) to explain and justify failure or loss of control.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the blink of an eye; in a split second
A vivid literary and spoken four-character idiom describing something vanishing or happening extremely fast.
disappeared; gone missing
Everyday colloquial expression to state that a person or item cannot be found.
Indicates a change of state, signifying that the person became missing.
