我请你去茗府吃饭 你是百般地推脱
“When I invited you to Ming House for a meal, you rejected me every time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还是这么爱开玩笑
“you still like to crack jokes, don't you?”
我请你 去茗府 吃饭 你是 百般地推脱
“When I invited you to Ming House for a meal, you rejected me every time.”
现在我来到你们无名私厨 亲自捞你的鱼
“Now, I've come all the way to your private kitchen and caught a fish here.”
“You were so hard to get, so I had to come all the way here to catch you myself.”
Extending dinner invitations is a primary tool for building interpersonal rapport in Chinese culture; declining multiple times requires delicate face-saving teasing upon reuniting.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in every possible way; repeatedly
Used before verbs like 推脱 (evade) or 阻挠 (obstruct) to emphasize extreme or relentless behavior.
to shirk; to make excuses to decline
A common formal-to-neutral term used when someone sidesteps an invitation, task, or responsibility.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“After the movie, I'll treat you to dinner. Not a big deal.”
“Then let me treat you to a meal. What for? Come on, Professor Zhuang is treating us to a meal.”
“You treat me to a meal. You even taught me how to order dishes.”
“Then let me treat you to dinner, okay?”
“I still need to mooch meals at your place.”
“I'd like to invite you to my residence for a chat.”