刚才我正要说呢 就来个老太太 我就走了嘛
“I was just about to tell you, but then that old lady came in and I left.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就让你开电影院吧 对吧 书记 有地方
“I can't just give you one room and tell you to open a theater. Right? Mr. Zheng, there is a place.”
刚 才我 正要说呢 就 来个老 太 太 我就走了 嘛
“I was just about to tell you, but then that old lady came in and I left.”
咱们富裕路 不是有个毛巾厂吗 他们要搬家了
“Isn't there a towel factory on Fuyu Road? They're relocating.”
“Don't blame me for holding back information; bad timing interrupted me.”
In casual Chinese interpersonal exchanges, speakers frequently cite spontaneous external circumstances to excuse delays or missed communications.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
was just about to say
Used to explain an intended action that was cut short or pre-empted by an unexpected event.
then suddenly came along
Employs '就' to emphasize promptness or suddenness in a sequence of events.
Marks an ongoing progressive state or thought process right before the disruption.
Frames the speaker's departure as an obvious, natural reaction given the circumstances.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't you leave! How can you lie like that?”
“That Mrs. Ji is finally gone. Yesterday,”
“Where's his grandma? She's left already. You know you should come back, don't you?”
“That old woman sent you here today, didn't she?”
“Why put the old lady through all that trouble?”
“And as for the old lady, she only has a little over one thousand a month,”