我刚才已经又呼他一次了
“I just paged him again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这大太阳晒得我
“Over half an hour waiting. The sun is baking me.”
我刚才已经又呼他一次了
“I just paged him again.”
可能有什么事耽误了
“Maybe something came up.”
“Be patient, I am doing what I can to track him down.”
Using 'paging' captures urban Chinese communication habits of the 1990s, where meeting someone required waiting by a public telephone after sending a page.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to page / to beep (via pager)
A vintage telecommunications term from the 1990s referring to sending a beep or numeric message via a pager.
did ... once more
Used to emphasize repeated effort to resolve an issue.
Indicates completion of the recent paging attempt.