是看在你 年纪大的面子上
“out of respect for your age.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我之所以同意见你
“I only agreed to see you”
是看在你 年纪大 的 面子 上
“out of respect for your age.”
别跟我扯什么占地的事
“Don't bring up anything about land rights with me.”
“Don't think you have any real power here; I'm only tolerating you because you are old.”
While respecting elders is a core Confucian virtue, weaponizing 'respecting your age' as an explicit concession serves to demean the elder by stripping away their actual authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
for the sake of / out of respect for
A key interpersonal formula to show that an action is a favor granted because of a relationship or social norm, not necessity.
the reason why...
Used to introduce the premise before delivering the actual reason or justification.
Grammatical suffix forming the spatial/conceptual location within the idiom '看在……面子上'.
