我都跟林梅说了
“I already told Lin Mei.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
主要是我
“It's just that”
我都跟林梅 说了
“I already told Lin Mei.”
她肯定会失望
“She's bound to be disappointed.”
“My hands are tied because I already gave my word to Lin Mei, and I'll look terrible if I back out now.”
Once a commitment is verbally shared with someone, breaking it causes a severe loss of face and damages one's interpersonal reliability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I have already told...
Use this structure to emphasize that a commitment has already been communicated and is hard to undo.
Indicates a completed action that now creates an irreversible current state of affairs.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“ask Lin Mei.”
“No way. Lin Mei, this must be a misunderstanding.”
“Lin Mei is so outstanding.”
“If I hadn't asked Lin Mei, I wouldn't have known you were marrying him for a unit.”
“someone introduced a match to our Lin Mei. He works for the city transport team,”
“But Lin Mei will be back soon. Come on.”