你说的是什么时候的事
“When are you talking about?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么会跟你结婚呢
“How could she have married you?”
你说的是 什么时候的事
“When are you talking about?”
好几年前的事情了
“That was several years ago.”
“That happened so long ago, why are you even bringing it up now?”
Relegating an embarrassing or inconvenient commitment to a vague distant past is a standard pragmatic tactic to minimize personal accountability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
when did this happen; from when
Used colloquially to inquire about when an event occurred, often conveying disbelief or implying it is old news.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“When did that happen?”
“Was it proposed before or after my report came out?”
“around 2006,”
“Based on the timeline,”
“Besides, when did that even happen?”