好不容易才说服她让我出门
“I convinced her to let me come out.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我跟我妈妈说我要跟你拍电影啊
“I told my mother we were shooting a movie.”
好不容易才 说服她 让 我出门
“I convinced her to let me come out.”
你要玩找别人玩 我还有事要忙
“You can't hang out with me. I'm too busy.”
“Don't send me away—I fought hard just to be here with you.”
Young adults in East Asian households often must provide elaborate, productive justifications (like working or shooting a movie) to gain permission to go out.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only with great effort / with great difficulty
Used before an action to emphasize the high cost, effort, or obstacles overcome to achieve it.
to convince; to persuade
Standard transitive verb indicating successful persuasion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It took a lot to persuade him to leave.”
“and I didn't have time to call her out of hiding.”
“how you got her to agree?”
“(She only told me she was gone afterward.)”
“We must find a way to make her speak.”
“went to such trouble to lure me out.”