卫姑娘 我想让你帮我一个忙
“Miss Wei, could you do me a favor?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你的出入腰牌 是一直都在身上的吧 对呀
“You always keep your access badge on you, right? Yes.”
卫姑娘 我想 让你帮 我一个忙
“Miss Wei, could you do me a favor?”
什么忙 我想出府 那不行 你现在还病着呢
“What favor? I want to leave the premises. No way. You are still sick,”
“I need you to do something risky for me, so please hear me out.”
In Chinese social interaction, signaling that a request is coming before stating the actual content cushions the social pressure and gives the interlocutor mental preparation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
do me a favor
A very standard and versatile collocation used to preface a request for assistance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Miss Wei was teaching me self-defense. Self-defense?”
“Miss He, you just wait and see.”
“What have you got about Miss He?”
“Miss Lu, we're old acquaintances”
“Miss Lu, there you are.”
“Miss Li, it is wrong for you to say so.”