也用不了多长时间
“before they know about it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们要查起来
“it won't take long”
也 用不了多长时间
“before they know about it.”
小王
“Wang.”
“They will find the truth almost immediately once they start looking.”
Reflects the awareness in Chinese professional environments of the swiftness and thoroughness of institutional internal audits.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
won't take very long
Standard idiomatic construction using potential negative '用不了' to express short duration.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Perhaps it won't be long”
“we won't hold you up much longer.”
“and then he would have been useless.”
“Whenever I need him, he's never around.”