Topic-Comment Structures

这件事，说复杂也复杂，说简单其实也简单，关键在于你从哪个角度去看。

Zhè jiàn shì, shuō fùzá yě fùzá, shuō jiǎndān qíshí yě jiǎndān, guānjiàn zài yú nǐ cóng nǎge jiǎodù qù kàn.

This matter - one could say it is complicated, and one could also say it is simple; the key lies in from which angle you look at it.

人生的很多选择，当时未必能立刻看出对错，往往要过很久才知道它真正的意义。

Rénshēng de hěn duō xuǎnzé, dāngshí wèibì néng lìkè kàn chū duì cuò, wǎngwǎng yào guò hěn jiǔ cái zhīdào tā zhēnzhèng de yìyì.

Many choices in life - it is not necessarily possible to immediately see whether they are right or wrong at the time; often only much later does one understand their true meaning.

这个问题，我们以前不是没有讨论过，只是一直没有找到一个大家都能接受的办法。

Zhège wèntí, wǒmen yǐqián bú shì méiyǒu tǎolùn guo, zhǐshì yìzhí méiyǒu zhǎodào yí ge dàjiā dōu néng jiēshòu de bànfǎ.

This problem - it is not that we have never discussed it before; it is just that we have never found a solution that everyone could accept.