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Learning Daily Chinese Expression 老实说

If you often watch the Chinese ancient costume teleplays during the process when you study at Chinese language school, you may often hear the actors say 来人哪. As a matter of fact, this phrase is also frequently used in modern life with the function of shouting for help like 来人哪!有人晕倒了!One thing you should know is that it is often used on the dangerous occasion. You can say 来人哪!有人抢我的包儿!

When mentioning help, we all know that everyone need help from others and you should be polite when asking for help and showing gratitude after the help. The structure 劳您驾了is very frequently used in order to ask for the others to help the speakers such as 劳您驾了,请让我过去一下. It can be also applied to show gratitude to the others after getting the help from the others. For example, 甲:你要的书,我已经给你买来了。乙:劳驾您了.

As we all know, honesty is important when you get along with your friends. Sometimes, you may need to express something frankly. The foreigners who study in China may know it goes as “frankly speaking” in English. When it comes to Chinese language, it should be 老实说. It usually functions as a parenthesis to show what the speaker says is totally true, which is equal to 说实话 and 说真的. For instance, 你应该好好反省一下自己的工作了,老实说,最近你的业务额很不令人满意.

You may also see老实讲when you learn Chinese online free which is also correct. Before you use it, you should know it is used before the words that the speaker dare not speak or feels embarrassing to speak or does not want to speak in public and only speaks to the trustworthy or intimate people. For example, 甲:我这个人不善于表达,但老实讲,我心里很喜欢她。乙:那你就应该勇敢地告诉她.
 

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