I don't want to sound like a busybody, but didn't you plan to go abroad?
我并不想瞎打听,可你原来不是打算出国吗?
Let's stop discussing trivial details and come to the point.
咱们别再谈琐碎细节了,说正事吧。
Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.