我就先不等她了 我先走了 改天我们一块吃饭
“I won't wait for her. I'm leaving now. Let's eat together another time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“She... won't be back for a while, right?”
我就先 不等 她 了 我先走了 改天 我们 一块吃饭
“I won't wait for her. I'm leaving now. Let's eat together another time.”
真的 行 那改天
“Really. Okay. Another time then.”
“I can't wait any longer, so I'm heading out now. See you around.”
Proposing to eat together 'another day' is frequently a standard social pleasantry in Chinese culture to soften a departure, rather than an appointment set in stone.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
won't wait any longer for now
A practical way to announce that you are giving up waiting and intend to leave.
another day / some other time
Commonly used in social etiquette as an indefinite future time for casual invitations.
eat a meal together
Standard conversational phrasing for hanging out over food.
Indicates a change of state and a finalized decision to stop waiting.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll be going now. Wait.”
“- You started it. - I'm leaving. - Maybe another day. - She started it. - Wait. - Another day.”
“You go first. We'll catch up later.”
“You guys eat. I've got to go.”
“I'm going first. I'll order for us. I'm coming with you. Let's go.”
“I'm leaving now.”