那早两年的事情了
“That was years ago. We can't find him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
给找出来
“and see if we can track down that hit-and-run driver.”
那 早两年的事情了
“That was years ago. We can't find him.”
找不着
“That was years ago. We can't find him.”
“Too much time has passed, so do not expect to find it now.”
Citing how much time has passed is a conventional and face-saving conversational strategy to lower expectations when asked to retrieve lost items or revisit old disputes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a couple of years ago; earlier years
Colloquial phrasing used to refer to a few years back rather than recent events.
a matter of; something from
Common conversational formula to categorize an event or topic in a specific time frame.
Functions as a sentence-final particle indicating a completed timeframe and affirming a changed situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“that was many years ago.”
“That was many years ago.”
“I had an incident years ago.”
“About the past,”
“it's been 20 years, right?”
“Tell him that 17 years ago,”