非常忙 起早贪黑的
“Extremely busy. Working from dawn till dusk.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
两三岁的时候 那时候我正忙着一个人命案
“When my son Xiaoyu was about two or three years old, I was busy with a homicide case.”
非常忙 起早贪黑 的
“Extremely busy. Working from dawn till dusk.”
回家都是大半夜了
“I wouldn't get home until late at night.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese public service narratives, dedicating dawn-to-dusk hours to critical duties at the cost of family presence is a recurring theme of tragic devotion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to work from early dawn until late at night
A classic four-character idiom (chengyu) vividly describing grueling labor or long work hours.
Placed at the end of the clause to add descriptive emphasis and affirm the enduring state of hardship.
