一晃就过去了三年多
“and more than three years passed in a blink.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们一起弹琴 作曲
“We played and composed,”
一晃就过去 了三年多
“and more than three years passed in a blink.”
“Our time together felt so brief, and thinking about it fills me with sentimental longing.”
Chinese narrative frequently uses phrases like '一晃' to evoke the Buddhist and literary sensibility of the ephemeral nature of worldly joy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in a flash; in the blink of an eye
A very common colloquial adverb used to emphasize how rapidly time slips by.
more than three years
Used with a time span followed by '多' to denote 'over' or 'more than' that duration.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Six years have passed in a blink of an eye.”
“Four years of college flew by.”
“It'd just be a few months for transition, right? But it's been almost a year now.”