你就当帮帮忙 你看 老人也多 腿脚不方便的也多
“Just do everyone a favor. Look, there are lots of elderly people with bad knees and heart problems.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
葛叔 葛叔 葛叔 大家都街坊邻居这么多年了
“Mr. Ge... Mr. Ge, we've been neighbors for so many years. Just do everyone a favor.”
你 就当 帮帮忙 你看 老人也多 腿脚 不方便 的也多
“Just do everyone a favor. Look, there are lots of elderly people with bad knees and heart problems.”
“with bad knees and heart problems. Just help us out.”
“Please drop your objection; you are making life impossible for the frail elderly people in our building.”
Appealing to the vulnerability of the elderly is a powerful moral strategy in Chinese communal disputes, obliging opponents to act charitably to avoid looking callous.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
consider it doing a favor
A colloquial framing used when begging someone to make a concession for the sake of kindness.
having mobility difficulties; trouble walking
A polite, standard idiom to describe elderly or disabled people who cannot walk easily.
