打电话给他 分手
“Call him and break up with him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
好
“OK.”
打电话给他 分手
“Call him and break up with him.”
你是不是疯了 我说分手 怎么跟你妹说话呢
“Are you crazy? I said break up with him. Why did you talk to your sister like that?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In close Chinese family dynamics, siblings or elders sometimes feel justified directly commanding another family member to end a relationship deemed unsuitable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
call him on the phone
A standard construction pattern (打 + 电话 + 给 + person) for initiating a phone call.
to break up; to separate
The standard modern term for dissolving a dating relationship.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Can you help me call her? Please?”
“Ask him to answer my call, okay?”
“Could I borrow your phone to make a call?”
“Call him. Ask him to come back.”
“[Dennis] Don't hang up. I'm about to help you.”
“still give him a call.”