恍如隔世 (huǎng rú gé shì) — (idiom) as if a lifetime has passed; a feeling of drastic change making the past seem like another world
Definition
An idiom describing the disorienting feeling that familiar things have changed so much the past feels like another lifetime. Common with 之感 / 的感觉 to name the emotion.
idiom
as if a lifetime has passeda feeling of drastic change making the past seem like another world
Examples
- ，恍如隔世。Huí dào xiǎo shí hou zhù de dì fāng, zhēn yǒu huǎng rú gé shì zhī gǎn.Returning to the place where I lived as a child, I truly felt as if a lifetime had passed.
- ，，恍如隔世。Shí nián hòu zài jiàn, yí qiè biàn huà tài dà, ràng rén huǎng rú gé shì.Meeting again after ten years, everything had changed so much it felt like another life.
- ，恍如隔世。Fān kàn lǎo zhào piàn, tā yǒu yì zhǒng huǎng rú gé shì de gǎn jué.Looking through old photos, he had a feeling that a whole lifetime had passed.
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