我翻来覆去地睡不着觉
“I tossed and turned all night.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
接过来啊
“over here?”
我 翻来覆去 地 睡不着觉
“I tossed and turned all night.”
半夜
“In the middle of the night,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese discourse, internal distress and moral dilemmas are frequently described through physical symptoms such as tossing and turning at night rather than abstract psychological terms.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tossing and turning; repeatedly
A very common four-character idiom (chengyu) describing physical restlessness in bed due to worry or distress.
unable to fall asleep
Potential complement construction used in everyday speech to express sleeplessness or insomnia.