最近忙得都没顾上喂它
“I've been too busy lately to feed her.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
最近忙得都 没顾上喂 它
“I've been too busy lately to feed her.”
“Try this. Come on, try it.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Citing extreme busyness ('忙') is a ubiquitous and socially acceptable way to explain oversights or lapses in care in modern Chinese life.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
so busy that one didn't even have time/attention to attend to something
A highly natural conversational structure to excuse an oversight due to busyness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You leave more food for it. It'll be fine for two or three days.”
“We've been hungry for a while.”
“Hello? Why are you still up?”
“Hello, what's going on?”
“instead of having them wait for me to feed them every day,”
“I'm not full yet.”