像是有一辈子那么久 没回来过了
“I feel like it has been a lifetime since I was last here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If you need anything else, just let me know.”
像是 有 一辈子那么久 没回来 过了
“I feel like it has been a lifetime since I was last here.”
房租
“The rent”
“So much has happened; being back here feels overwhelming and surreal.”
Chinese speakers often express deep existential sighs about the passage of time using metaphors of a lifetime when returning to a familiar living space.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
feels as long as...
A common rhetorical pattern used to exaggerate the psychological duration of time.
a lifetime
Used hyperbolically to emphasize an exceedingly long period of time.
Marks a change of state and completion of the prolonged duration away.