还请大姐姐施以援手
“please lend me a hand.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“In the future, if our father uses my marriage as a tool,”
还请大 姐姐 施以援手
“please lend me a hand.”
您不同意
“You don't agree?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese extended families, younger siblings often showed great deference and formal humility when asking senior siblings for intervention in personal affairs.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I would still like to ask/request
A highly polite and respectful formula used to introduce an earnest request to someone of higher status or authority.
to lend a helping hand; to render assistance
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) suitable for serious, formal appeals for aid.
