所以这一次 第一时间我就觉得很奇怪
“That's why I found it strange this time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If anything seemed slightly off, he'd call us immediately.”
所以这一次 第一时间 我就 觉得 很奇怪
“That's why I found it strange this time.”
“Why didn't he call us?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese narrative accounts, speakers often emphasize their immediate intuition ('第一时间') to justify why a deviation from standard routine warrants formal suspicion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
immediately / from the very first moment
Extremely frequent in both spoken and written Chinese to emphasize reacting instantly to a development.
felt it was very strange / found it weird
Used to express doubt, suspicion, or instinctive realization that an irregularity exists.
