员工餐而已 胡小姐不用这么拘束
“It's just staff meal. You don't need to be so formal, Ms. Hu.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
员工餐 而已 胡小姐 不用这么拘束
“It's just staff meal. You don't need to be so formal, Ms. Hu.”
“Besides, our partner has come all this way.”
“Please don't treat this like a formal burden—just relax and eat with us.”
Hosts routinely downplay the grandeur of a meal as 'just simple food' to ease the guest's sense of indebtedness and eliminate social stiffness (ke-qi).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
staff meal
Refers to the routine daily lunch or dinner provided by an enterprise or restaurant for employees.
no need to be so reserved / make yourself at home
A highly polite social phrase used by hosts to encourage guests to drop stiff formalities.