生日、节假日之类的 但越来越少了
“Birthdays, holidays, that sort of thing. But less and less.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
- 你还跟他聊天吗？ - 偶尔
“- Do you talk to him still? - Now and then.”
生日 、节假日 之类的 但 越来越少 了
“Birthdays, holidays, that sort of thing. But less and less.”
他现在有其他孩子了 我能想象不久后 我们就不再聊天了
“He's got other kids. I can imagine us not speaking at all.”
“We only talk out of obligation, and soon we probably won't talk at all.”
In Chinese culture, sending messages on birthdays and traditional festivals represents the bare minimum baseline for maintaining distant or strained familial connections.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
and things like that; and so on
A very common colloquial tag attached to lists to summarize similar examples.
more and more...; increasingly...
Used to describe a continuous progressive change over time.
Marks a change of state, highlighting that the frequency of contact has noticeably decreased compared to the past.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“with no fixed holidays”
“It's the Chinese New Year.”
“it must be a wedding day.”
“And don't bring up the birthday again.”
“Can't you ever just relax? It's a birthday.”
“For things as important as birthdays, I've got to record them in a notebook.”