我要去喝盏茶 还要你们同意不成
“Do I need your permission to have a cup of tea?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小姐 夫人说了 叫小姐试完就回去的 啰唆什么
“My Lady, Madam said you should go back after trying them on. Enough.”
我要去 喝盏茶 还要 你们 同意不成
“Do I need your permission to have a cup of tea?”
“Just wait here, and don't follow me.”
“Know your place; you are servants and have no right to dictate what I do.”
In elite traditional households, personal attendants were expected to obey strictly, and questioning a master or mistress directly was seen as an unacceptable breach of decorum.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to drink a cup of tea
Uses the traditional measure word '盏' (zhan) typical in period or elegant speech for tea cups.
do you really expect that...?; do I have to...?
A rhetorical grammatical frame expressing irritation and disbelief that an unreasonable condition is being imposed.
Functions as a sentence-final rhetorical particle signaling challenge and incredulity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Would you like to come in for a cup?”
“If you do not want to watch, go drink your tea.”
“I made a pot of tea. Come have a cup.”
“What? You don't agree? Then, have some tea. Have some tea. Continue.”
“Can I go to your house for a cup of tea?”
“How could you not even offer a cup of tea? Mother, this is Chu Tang, not Chu Zhao.”