能不能让白及 别在院里边卖盒饭了
“ask Bai Ji to stop selling lunch boxes in the hospital?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
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“Can you”
能不能 让白及 别在院里边 卖盒饭了
“ask Bai Ji to stop selling lunch boxes in the hospital?”
不能
“No.”
“Tell him to stop selling here; it's causing problems and looks bad.”
In Chinese institutional or residential compounds (yuanzi), informal commerce often creates tension between livelihood needs and institutional discipline.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
can you / could we
A polite but firm question frame used to request action or change an undesirable situation.
sell boxed meals
Common collocation referring to selling takeaway packed lunches, often informally.
Signifies a change of state, reinforcing the request to discontinue an ongoing activity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Bai Ji's cooking is still the best. I thought, I'd never get to eat it again.”
“It's just about Bai Ji, and I'm really sorry to trouble you again.”
“But now that Bai Ji has come out of the Uninhabited Zone, it wouldn’t be right to keep it secret.”
“Bai Ji! Bai Ji! If you dare treat Shao badly... What?”
“do I really have to sacrifice Bai Ji,”
“If Bai Ji really goes that far...”