它们总是一会儿飞到这儿 一会儿飞到那儿
“They fly here for a moment, and then there.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么儿戏啊
“How is it a game?”
它们总是 一会儿 飞 到这儿 一会儿 飞到那儿
“They fly here for a moment, and then there.”
“They never want to stay on one tree for long.”
“They are completely non-committal and keep flirting around.”
Chinese speakers often project romantic ideals or moral judgments about fidelity onto nature, such as birds or trees, to articulate personal values indirectly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
now... now... / one moment... the next moment...
A very common correlative structure used to describe rapid alternation between two actions or states.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He's no longer the little sparrow”
“No matter where they took off from”
“By the time we got here, they had already left.”
“If they don't fly, I'll make you fly!”
“Wherever we went, they followed.”
“Or they have wings too? They can fly, right?”