我都没来得及让她出来
“and I didn't have time to call her out of hiding.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们一下就来了
“You came so suddenly,”
我都 没来得及 让她 出来
“and I didn't have time to call her out of hiding.”
没有
“No one.”
“You caught me off guard, so don't blame me for keeping her inside.”
Stating that one 'did not have time' (没来得及) is a common pragmatic strategy in Chinese to deflect fault without directly contesting authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
there is still time; in time
Commonly negated with '没' or '不' (没来得及) to indicate that an event happened too quickly to take action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I didn't ask them to visit at all.”
“It took you so long to come out here. What,”
“Then don't let her find out.”
“You must have explained it to her. They didn't come,”
“didn't even come out to meet us.”
“you wouldn't volunteer to chase her.”