难以担当此任 您还是请回吧
“I cannot take on this responsibility. Please return.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I have little experience and lack seniority.”
难以担当此任 您还是 请回吧
“I cannot take on this responsibility. Please return.”
你虽然年轻
“Although you are young,”
“I cannot and will not take this on; please drop the matter and leave.”
In traditional Chinese culture, declining an offer by emphasizing one's own lack of experience saves face for the inviter while shielding oneself from blame.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hardly capable of undertaking this responsibility
A formal and modest idiom useful in formal Chinese workplace communication to decline high-stakes appointments.
please go back / please leave
A polite and formal dismissal formula used to ask a guest or superior to depart.
Softens the dismissal from a blunt rejection into a deferential, tactful suggestion.
