当年你被往事所困
“Back then, you were troubled by the past”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“so I could perceive everything in this world.”
当年 你 被往事所困
“Back then, you were troubled by the past”
难以入眠
“and had trouble falling asleep.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Referencing a partner's darkest, most vulnerable past moments signifies intimacy, shared adversity, and reciprocal emotional debt.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
trapped by the past / haunted by previous events
A literary passive structure (被...所...) used to describe emotional obsession or trauma.
in those years / back then
Standard temporal marker used when opening nostalgic or reflective remarks about past eras.