哪有让客人干活的道理
“We can't have a guest do chores.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我来
“Let me do it.”
哪有 让客人 干活 的道理
“We can't have a guest do chores.”
无妨
“It's fine!”
“You are a guest here, please sit back and let me take care of it.”
In Chinese culture, treating a guest well is paramount; allowing a guest to do chores is considered a failure of hospitality and brings loss of face to the host.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how can it make sense to... / it makes no sense to...
A rhetorical structure used to reject a suggestion by appealing to common sense or established social norms.
to do manual chores or work
Common spoken term for everyday physical labor or domestic chores.
Functions within the nominalizing construction '哪有……的道理' to assert a standard of propriety.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We can't let the guest do it, it's the rule.”
“How could I trouble you to do it yourself?”
“How can we let our guest cook?”
“Why is she serving the others?”
“Helping guests is also your job.”