司令官在纽约领事馆的时候
“When the Commandant was at the New York consulate,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
土包子
“Country bumpkins.”
司令官在纽约领事馆的时候
“When the Commandant was at the New York consulate,”
参加的都是这种聚会
“he attended these kinds of parties.”
“We operate at an international high-society level, unlike uncultured outsiders.”
Having Western diplomatic or overseas experience often served as a marker of elite status and cultural superiority in 20th-century Chinese social hierarchies.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
consulate
A common institutional noun referring to diplomatic missions abroad.
when... / during the time that...
Essential time clause structure used to set the temporal background of an event.