我没顾得上看他们
“I didn't actually see what happened between them.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就忙着灭火
“so I rushed to put it out.”
我 没顾得上 看他们
“I didn't actually see what happened between them.”
检察员请发表意见
“Prosecutor, you may proceed.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Witnesses and defendants in Chinese courts are expected to provide clear, candid chronological accounts of urgent events to establish lack of subjective intent or negligence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
did not manage to / was too busy to attend to
A highly useful spoken pattern to explain that an urgent priority prevented you from doing something else.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They didn't have time for me anymore.”
“They don't even look at you.”
“But if they really go all out,”
“They failed to see the bigger picture.”
“I can't bear to see the two of them”
“I can't stand seeing them gang up on people.”