你们分居很长时间了吗 我以为那是摄影师
“you'd been separated for a long time? I thought that was a cameraman.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“you could do something like this. And didn't you say”
你们 分居很长时间 了 吗 我以为 那是 摄影师
“you'd been separated for a long time? I thought that was a cameraman.”
“Of course, it could've been him. And I was telling the truth.”
“Are you really estranged from your spouse, or was I completely misreading who that person was?”
Asking about marital separation requires balancing polite indirectness with genuine curiosity, often softened by explaining one's earlier misunderstanding.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
live apart; marital separation
Specifically denotes spouses living in separate homes, often preceding formal divorce.
I thought; I assumed
Used to express an assumption that turned out to be incorrect or needs re-evaluation.
Turns the statement into a direct yes-no question seeking factual confirmation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She lived together with the photographer right after separation.”
“my parents had already been separated for a long time,”
“We've been apart for so long,”
“We've already been separated for so long.”
“It's been ages. We broke up long ago.”
“like I've been apart from Wangyan forever.”