还请袁大监通融一下
“I would appreciate if Steward Yuan could be accommodating.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
见过睿王
“Greetings, Prince Rui.”
还请袁大监 通融一下
“I would appreciate if Steward Yuan could be accommodating.”
我有几句话 要单独讲与庶人燕麒
“I have a few words to speak privately with commoner Yan Qi.”
“I know this breaks palace protocol, but please overlook the rules just this once for me.”
In Chinese institutional culture, rigid rules often coexist with discretionary flexibility (通融), where personal appeal, status, or relationship can persuade a gatekeeper to make an informal exception.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bend the rules; to make an exception
A highly practical pragmatic formula used when asking someone with authority to be flexible and overlook standard procedures.
would also request that; please be so kind as to
A polite, deferential marker commonly placed before requests in formal or professional Chinese to soften the command.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So I need you as witness.”
“to discuss it again with Mr. Yuan, to show our sincerity”
“I must ask for your forgiveness.”
“If you pass on the wrong message,”
“Please forgive me, Young Sect Master Lin.”
“Please forgive me.”