我堂哥家住在府西街 下午的时候
“My cousin lives on Fuxi Street. In the afternoon,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我堂哥家 住在府西街 下午 的时候
“My cousin lives on Fuxi Street. In the afternoon,”
三进房子炸毁了两进
“two out of three courtyards of his house were destroyed.”
“The casualties and destruction are far worse than you think—it hit my own family.”
Reference to extended family ('堂哥') and multi-courtyard dwellings ('进') reflects traditional Chinese clan structures and residential layouts affected by modern war.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
older male paternal cousin
Kinship term specifying an older male cousin sharing the same paternal surname.
during the afternoon; around afternoon
Standard conversational time-anchor used to establish when a particular narrative event took place.
Forms a temporal nominal phrase specifying the timeframe of the occurrence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Everyone in this house said she is pregnant with a boy.”
“Don't we have kitchen staff?”
“the place is going to feel so lively.”
“No one in your family noticed, right?”
“might think the family mistreated you.”
“you went to the prefectural office to report the Li family, didn't you? So what if I did?”