陆豪 我今晚有事儿
“Lu Hao, I've got plans tonight.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
请吧
“Please.”
陆豪 我 今晚有事儿
“Lu Hao, I've got plans tonight.”
下次吧
“Maybe next time.”
“I'm busy tonight, so I can't hang out with you.”
Saying 'I have things to do' is a universally understood social convention in China to protect face, signaling a polite refusal without needing to justify the absence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be busy; to have things to do
The quintessential all-purpose excuse in Chinese to decline an invitation without going into awkward specifics.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Luo Hanzhang. Nonsense!”
“Ronghua, I'm not only doing this for you,”
“Boss He asked me to stop you this time because he wanted me to ask—”
“The Haihua matter isn't that simple.”
“If Li Haichao didn't send me a WeChat message, asking me to come to see you,”
“Did you kill Lu Han... No.”