我想让你晚走几天
“I was thinking you should leave a few days later”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You went to the same elementary school.”
我想让你 晚走几天
“I was thinking you should leave a few days later”
“Stay home a bit longer so I can set you up on more dates before you leave.”
Chinese parents often use the brief window of holiday visits to press their unmarried adult children into attending arranged blind dates (相亲).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
delay leaving by a few days
A common colloquial phrase used when asking someone to postpone their travel plans.
I want/wish for [someone] to...
A direct causative structure used by elders or superiors to state desires for someone else's actions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to buy you some time.”
“so you want me to come back later? Let me reiterate this to you.”
“You are going to be late.”
“You want to use the time difference”
“I might be delayed for a couple of days.”
“Could you please give me a little more time?”