让她当面 给你好好赔礼道歉
“and let her apologize to you in person.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我叫上程程
“I'll ask Chengcheng to come”
让她 当面 给你 好好 赔礼道歉
“and let her apologize to you in person.”
好啊
“OK.”
“I'll make sure she swallows her pride and gives you the respect and face you deserve.”
Demanding someone apologize 'face-to-face' (当面赔礼道歉) is a crucial cultural mechanism to restore wounded pride and settle social grievances.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to one's face; in person
Essential in Chinese relational repairs, emphasizing sincerity by meeting face-to-face.
to make a formal apology; to offer an apology with amends
A formal idiom widely used in daily speech to denote a serious, humble apology to restore face.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“came to apologize today.”
“Give her a chance to apologize.”
“Then I... I'll go apologize to him.”
“He asked me to apologize to you too.”
“or an apology required, I'll bear it as well.”
“She is the one you should be apologizing to. You...”