一晃二十多年过去了
“Over 20 years passed in a flash”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
只好退学
“And I had to drop out”
一晃 二十多年 过去了
“Over 20 years passed in a flash”
我依然觉得没有上大学
“I still feel that not going to college”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Reflecting on how decades have slipped away in a flash is a pervasive poetic and spoken motif when Chinese people look back on unresolved youth regrets.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in a flash; in the blink of an eye
Used before a time span to emphasize how astonishingly fast time seems to have flown by.
more than twenty years
Pattern of 'number + measure word/classifier + 多' to express an approximation above a certain round number.
Marks the passage of a specified duration of time up to the present moment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So many years have passed.”
“Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.”
“More than 10 years have passed in a flash.”
“Six years have passed in a blink of an eye.”
“More than a year has passed.”
“But after all these years,”