One time when I was chatting with my daughter, I pointed out: Only a few years ago, if someone told me I would settle in New Zealand, I would have split my sides laughing. One reaches one's middle years, and then makes a dramatic departure from the first half of one's life.
有一次跟女兒聊起：僅僅是幾年以前，如果有人說我會到紐西蘭定居，我一定笑破肚皮。