你说到我们都不好意思了
“You're flattering us.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说 到我们 都不好 意思 了
“You're flattering us.”
别别别
“Don't be.”
“You are flattering us too much; we really appreciate it, but we must stay humble.”
Directly accepting lavish praise can be seen as arrogant in Chinese culture; expressing polite embarrassment is standard etiquette to signal modesty and mutual respect.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
embarrassed / flattered / shy
A versatile social formula used here to express modest embarrassment in response to lavish praise.
talking to the extent that...
A resultative structure indicating that speech has reached an extreme effect or degree.
Marks a newly emerged state of social modesty and emotional reaction caused by the compliment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“my apologies. Our”
“I'm truly sorry. We did everything we could.”
“I-I'm sorry. I didn't know you were here.”
“He's here. I'm so sorry.”
“Right. Sorry, slipped up there.”
“You... -I'm sorry. -It's OK.”
“You're making us feel embarrassed. We didn't prepare anything special.”
“I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry, really. We'll be going now.”
“I was too embarrassed to even bring it up to you.”
“You can see, um... Excuse me. Excuse me, everyone.”
“It's nothing. Sorry.”
“if he or she isn't mentally unhealthy.”
“- Yeah, sorry. - You're fine. Take your time.”
“I'm sorry. I didn't hear anything just now.”
“Then it's not on us. Sorry. That was the wrong word.”
“-And this. -Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry.”