差不多半个时辰就能烧完
“The wax up there would burn out in about half one hour.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“They must have been able to move freely in the palace. The wax up there would burn out in about half one hour.”
差不多 半个时辰 就能 烧完
“The wax up there would burn out in about half one hour.”
事发时 宴会进行了约三刻
“When the incident happened, the banquet had been going for three ke.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Traditional China divided the 24-hour day into 12 two-hour blocks called shichen, essential for following timelines in period dramas.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost; approximately
A ubiquitous modifier used before quantities or descriptions to denote an approximation.
half a traditional two-hour period (one hour)
A traditional Chinese unit of time found in historical dramas; one shichen equals two modern hours.
