多少年了 你别费劲了
“It's been years. Stop wasting your effort.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你是不是有陈雨墨的消息了
“Did you find anything on Chen Yumo?”
多少年了 你 别费劲了
“It's been years. Stop wasting your effort.”
“Wake up, she is gone for good and you are only hurting yourself.”
Close friends in China demonstrate genuine care by being blunt about futility rather than validating false hope.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it's been so many years
Used as rhetorical justification to highlight that too much time has passed for an outcome to change.
don't bother / don't waste your effort
A pragmatic phrase used to advise someone against pursuing an unproductive or futile endeavor.
Reinforces the cessation of an action ('stop doing it') when paired with '别'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's been years since I last ate this.”
“That long?”
“But after all these years,”
“So many years have passed in a flash.”
“Never thought after all these years,”
“So many years have passed.”