这是什么时候的事
“When did that happen?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但是他又杠不过他媳妇 他一生气出去打工去了
“But he couldn't convince his wife, so he got angry and left to find work.”
这是什么 时候 的 事
“When did that happen?”
得有二十年了
“Must be about twenty years ago.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese conversational flow, asking '什么时候的事' establishes context to judge whether an issue is recent history or an old settled matter.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
when did this happen; from when is this
A very natural spoken idiom to inquire about the timeline of an event someone just mentioned.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Besides, when did that even happen?”
“When are you talking about?”
“when”
“around 2006,”
“So, when did you stop”