我本可以让你们少赶一趟的
“[woman] I could've saved you the drive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我觉得不应该在这里停车
“[Akram] I don't think we're supposed to park here.”
我 本可以 让你们少赶 一趟 的
“[woman] I could've saved you the drive.”
我们不允许任何人探望林加德先生
“We don't allow Mr. Lingard to see visitors.”
“You came all this way for nothing; you cannot go in.”
Gatekeepers often soften an outright institutional refusal by first acknowledging the visitor's wasted physical effort ('赶一趟').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could have (in retrospect)
Used to express counterfactual possibility in the past, often conveying regret or pointing out an avoidable outcome.
to save a trip / to avoid an unnecessary journey
A natural everyday idiom referring to sparing someone the trouble of traveling somewhere needlessly.
Functions here to assert certainty and finalize the counterfactual statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I won't push it.”
“I'll help you cancel it if you can't make it back on time. We are rushing back now.”
“I'll help you cancel it if you can't make it back on time.”
“If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!”
“During the trip, she won't bring trouble.”
“I mean the time is really limited. Enough talk. Can you do it or not?”