我还有一些家务事要处理
“I need to settle some family matters.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“but I can take care of some people.”
我 还有 一些 家务事 要 处理
“I need to settle some family matters.”
“Once I take care of those, perhaps I will go to you.”
“Not yet. I need to take care of my own life first.”
Invoking domestic duties is culturally respected and serves as an unchallengeable, graceful pretext to defer commitments or invitations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
family affairs, domestic matters
Can refer literally to chores, but colloquially often implies complicated private family matters.
to deal with, to settle
A very common verb for resolving tasks, issues, or administrative problems.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I still have family matters to attend to”
“We have family matters to handle”
“I need time to deal with the aftermath.”