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2 Dec 2022
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请问,为什么中国人做客人的时候喜欢说“给你添麻烦了”呢?
请问,为什么中国人做客人的时候喜欢说“给你添麻烦了”呢?
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to be polite and modest, the expression is mostly seen as an idiom cuz Chinese people are always trying to be euphemistic and polite
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@Elliot2022 Because when you’re a guest at someone’s house, they’ll probably need to make more food and spend time entertaining you. So you’ll make them need to do more, that’s why you’re actually bothering them.
But sometimes 给你添麻烦了 is just a polite formula, maybe the person who is saying this doesn’t really feel that they’re bothering others.
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