什么时候能离开 你自己说个时间
“When can you leave? Tell me when.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但是我现在 不能离开月海
“But I can't leave Yuehai now.”
什么时候能 离开 你自己说 个时间
“When can you leave? Tell me when.”
等到月海的人口 到了五十万
“When Yuehai's population reaches 500,000,”
“Stop procrastinating and give me an exact date right now.”
Demanding that someone 'name the time themselves' is a common rhetorical strategy to lock the other party into a self-imposed commitment so they cannot later claim unfair treatment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
give a time / name a date
A practical spoken collocation used to ask someone to provide a definite timeframe or schedule.
you yourself
Emphasizes personal responsibility and agency, often used when holding someone to their own words.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“when can you arrange my transfer?”
“How long are you going to keep running from this?”
“When will you be able to get away from the guy?”
“We have time before the trial. Let's go through it again.”
“We'll leave here one day.”
“But when on earth can I walk?”
“I've been away from my desk for too long.”
“or when he would have a chance to escape.”
“Have we ever given ourselves an escape route?”
“When can we pass?”
“- So how long you be gone? - Who knows?”