能不能麻烦你们 再协调一下
“Could you please coordinate again?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
取样的设备 要三天以后才能调过来
“The sampling equipment can only be sent here three days later?”
能不能麻烦 你们 再协调一下
“Could you please coordinate again?”
这次的检测 对于我们来说 真的很着急 李镇长
“This test is really urgent for us. - Ms. Li. - Thank you.”
“A three-day wait is unacceptable for us; please use your authority to speed this up.”
In Chinese administration, 'coordination' (xietiao) implies leveraging personal authority or relationships to overcome rigid standard operating procedures.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could I trouble you to...
A highly polite and conventional formula for initiating a request in professional and public settings.
to coordinate / smooth things over
A key administrative and workplace term used to describe mediating between departments to get things done.