太太脸皮薄 就答应了
“Madam was too polite to refuse, so she agreed.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and wanted to borrow 20,000 taels of silver from Madam.”
太 太 脸皮薄 就 答应了
“Madam was too polite to refuse, so she agreed.”
“Who would have thought that it's been 20 years,”
“She was too polite and embarrassed to refuse, and now she is stuck with a bad debt.”
In traditional Chinese culture, someone with a 'thin skin' (脸皮薄) finds it difficult to reject requests from relatives or acquaintances because doing so harms social harmony and makes everyone lose face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
thin-skinned; shy; easily embarrassed to say no
Use this idiom to describe someone who is easily embarrassed or finds it socially difficult to refuse others' requests.
Indicates the completion of an action or transition into an agreed state.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“is just self-conscious. It must be because of that incident that she feels too embarrassed to see me.”
“while the thin-skinned starve.”
“You're just too shy.”
“but I'm definitely thick-skinned.”
“Don't you know girls are easily embarrassed?”
“Why are you so shy?”