我手里还有一堆活要干呢
“I still have a bunch of work to do.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你打住蜜语姐
“Stop right there, Miyu.”
我 手里 还有 一堆活要干 呢
“I still have a bunch of work to do.”
你不能看咱俩关系好
“You can't just exploit me”
“I am completely swamped, so stop dumping your tasks onto me just because we are close.”
While personal closeness often invites informal requests in Chinese workplaces, colleagues must sometimes explicitly push back to avoid being overburdened.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a pile of tasks; a mountain of work
A highly colloquial way to complain about having too much work to do.
still have on one's hands
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to indicate current unfinished commitments.
Emphasizes the ongoing and pressing state of having too much work, adding persuasive weight to the refusal.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I still have much to do.”
“There's still so much I haven't done.”
“I still have a lot to do.”
“I still haven't finished what I'm working on.”