应该要尽可能地 不给其他人来添麻烦
“should try their best not to become a burden to others.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一个人
“a person”
应该 要 尽可能地 不给 其他人来 添麻烦
“should try their best not to become a burden to others.”
所以他就觉得 在陪我妈这件事情上面呢
“So in his mind, when it comes to taking care of my mom,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
A deeply rooted social ethic across East Asia where minimizing disruption to others is considered paramount to personal integrity and consideration.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as far as possible / to the best of one's ability
A formal and polite adverbial chunk used to express maximum effort in speech and writing.
to cause trouble / to inconvenience someone
A core polite phrase used when asking for favors, apologizing, or describing consideration for others.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why would you say that?”
“now that I'm looking into this, My Lord?”
“That would be too much trouble for others.”
“Let's not trouble the other department.”
“not some troublemakers.”
“No trouble at all. Helping people is the least I can do.”
“is not to make any troubles for him.”
“I should try not to make more troubles for our son,”
“I definitely won't cause you any trouble.”
“I don't want to cause you more trouble.”
“Didn't want to trouble you.”
“I promise not to cause you trouble.”
“and end up causing unnecessary trouble for all of you.”
“Zhu, I'm not trying to cause trouble.”
“That doesn't make it OK. We shouldn't bother them.”
“I won't cause you any trouble.”
“the only thing I can do is to go back less often so I don't upset them.”