那你为什么要在2003年初 把房子买回来？
“Why did you buy it back in early 2003?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就把房子卖掉了
“So I sold it.”
那你 为什么要 在2003年初 把房子 买回来 ？
“Why did you buy it back in early 2003?”
那会儿我在保险公司上班
“At the time, I was working at an insurance company.”
“Your behavior is illogical unless you were hiding something or had a hidden motive.”
Real estate transactions in modern China leave indelible paper trails that investigators scrutinize closely to trace money laundering or motives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
buy back; repurchase
Combines the verb to buy with the directional complement indicating the retrieval of something previously possessed.
at the beginning of (a time period)
A standard temporal structure used to specify the early phase of a month, season, or year.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How could he, while you were inside, sell the house?”
“What? Did you buy this building?”
“you will definitely settle in the provincial capital, and buy a house there. Why would you come back?”