你当年不过一个七八岁的孩童
“You were only 7 or 8 years.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“we actually missed you.”
你 当年 不过 一个七八岁 的 孩童
“You were only 7 or 8 years.”
一个人在雪地里
“Alone in the snowfields,”
“You were so weak and powerless back then; it is incredible you survived.”
Reflects the common trope where failing to eliminate every descendant of an enemy leads to that child returning years later to seek retribution.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
merely a; nothing more than
Used to minimize or emphasize the insignificance or vulnerability of someone or something.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I was young and simple-minded.”
“He was so young at that time. It couldn't have been decided by him, right?”
“Back then, he was merely a soldier at Wangcheng.”
“When you were in elementary school. You were only this tall.”
“(When you were little,)”
“as if you were still kids.”