我连一个整觉都没睡过
“I haven't had a full night's sleep.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
从我孩子出生到现在
“Since my baby was born,”
我 连 一个 整觉 都没 睡过
“I haven't had a full night's sleep.”
“Then what will you do now that you're back at work?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Urban Chinese mothers face immense pressure balancing primary caregiving duties with a prompt return to demanding workplaces.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sleep through the night; get an uninterrupted block of sleep
Specifically refers to uninterrupted baby or caregiver sleep, widely used by parents in modern Chinese.
not even [verb / noun]
An emphatic grammatical construction highlighting an extreme minimum condition that was not met.