我突然想起来一些事情
“I suddenly remember a few things.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你全都忘记了
“You forgot everything?”
我 突然想起来 一 些事情
“I suddenly remember a few things.”
我有一次去外调
“Once I went out on an assignment,”
“I haven't forgotten everything—something important just came back to me.”
In Chinese administrative and judicial systems, '外调' (external investigation) refers to leaving one's local jurisdiction to gather evidence and interview external witnesses, a key procedural step in major inquiries.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to recall / to remember
A directional resultative complement indicating that a memory or idea has successfully resurfaced in the speaker's mind.
some matters / a few things
A versatile noun phrase used to vaguely or deliberately refer to specific events without immediately detailing them.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I suddenly remembered something.”
“Something suddenly occurred to me.”
“How did I just remember that now?”
“Why do you want”
“Why did you suddenly come to do business in the Chinese mainland?”
“And it… jogged some things loose.”
“I think I remembered something.”
“(when I suddenly noticed something very strange.)”
“Speaking of that, I just remembered something.”