可这么多年过去了
“But after all these years,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
多么幸福啊
“they were so happy.”
可 这么多年过去了
“But after all these years,”
还不是什么都变了
“everything has changed.”
“Don't dwell on how happy we were, because time has changed everything.”
Reflecting on elapsed time to acknowledge that people, feelings, and environments inevitably drift apart is a deeply rooted sentiment in Chinese emotional expression.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
so many years have passed
Used as a conversational bridge to evoke nostalgia, melancholy, or a sense of irrevocable change.
Marks a completed change of state or elapsed duration of time.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“All these years later,”
“So many years have passed,”
“(This? It's been ages.)”
“T-This was many years ago.”
“Never thought after all these years,”
“Over 20 years passed in a flash”
“That really has been a long, long time.”