二十年前还破破烂烂的
“It used to be shabby 20 years ago.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The night in Jinghai is beautiful.”
二十年前还 破破烂烂 的
“It used to be shabby 20 years ago.”
“Who would have thought Jinghai can be like this?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In contemporary China, conversations contrasting the impoverished past of two or three decades ago with modernized present cities are extremely common and evoke deep emotional resonance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tattered, shabby, run-down
A vivid AABB reduplicated adjective used casually to emphasize that physical objects, clothes, or places are heavily worn out or decrepit.
Placed at the end of the clause to affirm and stress the factual condition or descriptive state of the past.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“is no longer what it used to be.”
“3 shitty The Forever bikes from decades ago?”
“Do you know what this place was like 20 years ago?”
“Looks like it's been abandoned for a very long time.”
“But they're from 10 years ago. Can they still be of use now?”
“That was many years ago.”