但是那个失踪的美国人
“But that missing American”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“A sentry went missing yesterday.”
但是那个失踪的美国人
“But that missing American”
还是没有找到
“still hasn't been found.”
“Forget the sentry for a second—the foreigner is the real crisis we haven't resolved.”
Chinese speakers often place the key point or entity at the very front of the sentence to focus the listener's attention before delivering the predicate or outcome.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
missing / unaccounted for
Used as an attributive modifier before people or objects that have mysteriously vanished.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“With that American we haven't found,”
“Once we catch this American...”
“this American on our island?”
“...there might have been another American.”
“it seems this American”
“...was that American's hiding place.”