这一问才知道 都一岁多了
“I only found out after I asked you— and he was already over a year old.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If Leilei hadn't told me, I wouldn't even have known I had a son.”
这 一问才知道 都一岁多了
“I only found out after I asked you— and he was already over a year old.”
徐老师
“Ms. Xu.”
“I cannot believe I was left in the dark for so long that he is already over a year old.”
In Chinese culture, being absent from a child's early milestones carries deep moral weight and familial embarrassment, heightening the emotional shock of learning about an existing toddler.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only found out upon asking
Use this structure to emphasize that crucial information was completely unknown until a specific inquiry was made.
already over a year old
Pair '都' with an age or time expression to stress that time has elapsed much further than expected.
Marks a change of state and reinforces the speaker's realization of the elapsed time.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They all played dumb when you asked about something.”
“come to me, not him.”
“Stop asking. I don't know anything.”
“The way you asked that kind of threw me off.”
“Feel free to ask. I can tell you everything now.”
“It seems you don't know anything at all.”