你有阵子没去看你爸妈了吧
“haven't visited your parents in a while, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
赵玫啊
“Zhao Mei,”
你 有阵子没 去 看你 爸妈了吧
“haven't visited your parents in a while, right?”
是啊
“Yes.”
“It's about time you paid your parents a visit.”
In Chinese culture, asking after or reminding friends about visiting their parents reflects genuine interpersonal warmth and shared moral priorities.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
for a while; quite some time
Informal Northern Chinese colloquial expression denoting an unspecified stretch of time.
to visit; to drop by and see
Standard casual phrase used for visiting relatives, friends, or patients.
Solicits confirmation gently while indicating the speaker is relatively certain of their assumption.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Visit your parents when you can.”
“Why don’t you go back to your parents?”
“All this back and forth left me no time to visit my parents.”
“You have parents now.”
“Did you think of your parents when you said so?”
“I haven't seen you in days.”