拖拖拉拉没处理完
“dragging on unresolved.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还有一些其他的感情
“I still had some other emotional baggage”
拖拖拉拉 没处理完
“dragging on unresolved.”
之前没想过要结婚嘛
“I hadn't thought about marriage.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Modern Chinese relationship discourse places high importance on cleanly severing ties with exes before entering marriage to avoid lingering entanglements.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
procrastinating; dragging one's feet
An AABB reduplicative adjective/adverb describing slow, sluggish, or indecisive behavior.
to finish handling/resolving
A common verb-resultative complement structure used for resolving tasks or emotional baggage.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Dragging it out solves nothing.”
“I don't like dragging things out.”
“It was piled up in the documents to be handled. It's dusty.”