我不值得你浪费时间
“I'm not worth your time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What do you mean? Do you look down on me or on him?”
我 不值得 你 浪费时间
“I'm not worth your time.”
对不起
“I'm sorry.”
“Stop pursuing me; there is no future between us.”
Framing oneself as 'unworthy' allows the speaker to reject someone firmly while protecting the other person's pride and deflecting blame onto themselves.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not worth / unworthy
Commonly used in romantic or self-deprecating contexts to reject affection or dissuade effort.
waste time
A direct expression referring to misdirected or fruitless effort.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She's not worth your time.”
“I don't have time for this.”
“You shouldn't do this for me.”
“It doesn't deserve a book from you.”