离咱们三十来公里的地方 叫什么来着
“roughly 30 kilometers away. What's it called... My bad memory.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还有一个是在云汐市的西边
“The other is west of Yunxi City,”
离咱们三十来公里 的 地方 叫什么来着
“roughly 30 kilometers away. What's it called... My bad memory.”
这脑子
“What's it called... My bad memory.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In northern Mandarin especially, '来着' is the go-to verbal crutch when a speaker knows they once knew something but cannot retrieve it in the moment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
about thirty kilometers
The suffix '来' after a round number indicates an approximation ('around / roughly').
what was it called again?
A quintessential colloquial phrase used when a familiar name is on the tip of your tongue.
Colloquial compound particle used at the end of a question to evoke a forgotten memory or past fact.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“only about thirty miles from here! Our communications have been cut off.”
“We heard it clearly even from far away.”
“was finally within reach.”