你让母亲先把话说完
“Let Mother finish speaking first.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
四弟
“Dezhao.”
你让母亲 先把话说完
“Let Mother finish speaking first.”
我们大家商量好了
“We've already reached an agreement.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese families, elders hold conversational precedence, and elder siblings frequently step in to regulate younger siblings' behavior out of respect for parental authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
finish saying what one has to say
A very common ba-construction chunk used when telling someone to let another person speak without interruption.
first do (something)
Combines temporal priority with the disposal construction to establish an immediate conversational priority.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“on behalf of those people.”
“You have to take my words to heart.”
“I owe your mother.”
“how best to bring joy to her mother's heart.”
“I can explain it to my mother myself.”
“I still have things to say to my mom.”