都是些平常小事 哪里还有什么印象
“Nothing special. It's hardly memorable.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
已经过去很久了
“That was long ago.”
都是些平常 小事 哪里还有 什么 印象
“Nothing special. It's hardly memorable.”
对了
“Oh, I recall one incident.”
“Nothing noteworthy happened, so stop asking me to dig up old details.”
In Chinese communicative culture, using rhetorical questions like '哪里还...' is a common pragmatic device to firmly deny a premise without sounding bluntly confrontational.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mundane little matters; trivialities
Used to minimize the importance of events as common and not worth lingering on.
how could there still be
A rhetorical question structure used to assert strong negation in spoken discourse.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“taking loans for business is a common practice now. It's really no big deal.”
“...is like the most ordinary little thing...”
“but completely clueless about everyday things.”
“That's minor. As long as you're not shy of me. Besides, you're Yuehai's top leader.”
“It's just a small issue. I'll have it fixed in no time.”
“How come I have no memory of any of this?”