不能让老夏笑话我们
“♪Your flower-like smile♪ can't let Xia laugh at us.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
咱哪
“We ♪Your flower-like smile♪”
不能让 老 夏 笑话我们
“♪Your flower-like smile♪ can't let Xia laugh at us.”
咱们唱歌吧
“♪Your flower-like smile♪ Let's sing.”
“Keep it together and act confident so he won't look down on us.”
Deeply tied to face culture, Chinese people are often hyper-vigilant about not showing vulnerability or failure to peers or rivals to avoid being secretly mocked.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to mock; to laugh at; to make fun of
When used as a verb, it means someone is ridiculing or looking down on your situation.
must not allow [someone to do something]
A common rhetorical framing used to rally solidarity against potential embarrassment.