你为什么说已经过去很多年了呢
“Why did you assume it's been many years?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“but we didn't say which year it was.”
你 为什么说 已 经过 去很多年了呢
“Why did you assume it's been many years?”
“President Xu, regarding the questions we ask, whether you tell us voluntarily”
“You just gave yourself away by knowing when it happened.”
Chinese investigators often employ gentle, open-ended rhetorical questions to let the other party expose contradictions themselves rather than making immediate blunt accusations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
many years have passed
A standard temporal chunk used to refer to events long in the past.
Softens the interrogative question while highlighting curiosity and pressing for a logical explanation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Ten years have passed, yet you've barely grown.”
“Why are you asking about it? I know. It's been many years.”
“What? After all these years,”
“but it is an old story now. Why bring it up again?”
“Why is it still the same excuse ten years later?”