才一年 屁股还没坐热
“after a period as short as one year,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没想到
“How unexpected that”
才一年 屁股还没坐热
“after a period as short as one year,”
“she came back and said she got divorced. And she was even pregnant.”
“You barely even gave the marriage a chance before calling it quits.”
Traditional Chinese culture expects couples to endure initial friction; quitting early is often seen as impulsive and lacking endurance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
before one's seat has even gotten warm; staying only for a very brief period
A vivid colloquial idiom used when someone leaves or changes situations astonishingly quickly.
only a single year
Use '才' before a time duration to stress that the timeframe was remarkably brief.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Hasn't she bathed in a year?”
“He's going to university, just later.”
“Just one day a year. Can't we celebrate like other families?”
“This is the end of the year. Don't just stand there.”
“It's been a year and ten months.”
“In just one year, you've become a completely different person,”