我们本来只是想来带句话
“We only came to deliver a message,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
您终于回来了
“you're finally back.”
我们 本来只是想 来 带句话
“We only came to deliver a message,”
可是林先生现在不让我们走了
“but Mr. Lin won't let us leave now.”
“We're just the messengers here and have nothing to do with this feud; please make him let us go.”
There is a deeply rooted cultural expectation that a third party merely 'passing along words' should remain neutral and not suffer retaliation for the sender's actions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
originally just wanted to; only intended to
Essential pattern for establishing that an unexpected, troublesome outcome was never one's original intention.
to pass on a message; to deliver a word
Very frequent spoken idiom for conveying a short verbal message on behalf of someone else.