你说我这又扯远了
“Look. I'm digressing again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“is much harder than that in our childhood.”
你说 我这又 扯远了
“Look. I'm digressing again.”
你能不能
“Could you”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Blaming oneself for drifting into long-winded anecdotes demonstrates conversational consideration and prevents monopolizing the exchange.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
digress; get sidetracked; wander off-topic
A natural conversational pivot used when realizing you have veered away from the main subject.
Signals the completed change of state into having gone off-topic.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't make it sound so big.”
“You're way off topic.”
“Seems weird. Are you not close with your daughter?”
“Stop going off-topic”
“How could we end up drifting further apart?”
“It really is a small world.”