实在太困了 我 我眯了一会儿
“I was just too tired. I-I just dozed off for a bit.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“- I fell asleep. - Foreman Song. - Sorry. - Get up now.”
实在 太 困 了 我 我 眯了一会儿
“I was just too tired. I-I just dozed off for a bit.”
行行行 快去干活去 起来了 起来了
“Alright, get to work. Get up.”
“Please don't punish me, I only closed my eyes for a second because I was exhausted!”
Using diminutive verbs like 'dozing for a tiny bit' softens a clear workplace infraction and appeals to the supervisor's empathy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
really too sleepy
Used to explain physical exhaustion as an extenuating circumstance for missing something or falling asleep.
dozed off for a bit / took a quick catnap
A common colloquial way to downplay sleeping by framing it as just resting one's eyes briefly.
Marks the completed realization of extreme fatigue and the completed action of dozing off.