在4月2日上午
“on the morning of April 2nd,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
然後
“Then,”
在4月2日上午
“on the morning of April 2nd,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese always expresses dates and times hierarchically from largest unit to smallest: month, then day, then time of day.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Early morning, April 2, 1942”
“On the morning of February fifth, one year ago,”
“April 19th”
“But then, in February of last year,”
“this must have been a spur-of-the-moment action that night.”
“…that between September 28th and October 6th,”