我这里有一些帖子 想劳烦他帮我送到墨轩
“I've got some invitation cards here and wanted to trouble him to deliver them to the ink workshop.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“so he's barely slept for the past few days. He insisted on keeping watch himself.”
我这里有一些帖子 想劳烦 他 帮我送 到墨轩
“I've got some invitation cards here and wanted to trouble him to deliver them to the ink workshop.”
我进去看看他
“I'll go in and check on him.”
“Here is a work-related reason for me to go in and see how he is holding up.”
In historical China, formal social interactions required physical paper cards (tiezi) to issue invitations or request meetings with gentry and scholars.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to trouble someone (to do something); may I bother you to
A refined, polite verb used when asking someone for a favor, slightly more formal than 'mafan'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to add some joy to New Li's Ink Workshop's opening.”
“Even the ink workshop will have to be closed down.”
“You go back to New Li Ink Workshop and wait for me there, okay?”
“how will you explain it to Li Ink?”
“I haven't got Yunsong's painting yet.”
“can you go to the Chen Ink Workshop with me?”