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martyp
June 22, 2011, 08:59 PM posted in General Discussion

Can someone explain 您看?

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babyeggplant
June 22, 2011, 11:51 PM

Can you add the context?

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martyp
June 23, 2011, 04:07 AM

下次出差, 您看能不能给我带一本书。

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bodawei

Here it means to 'consider'.

If this is a Chinese person talking to you, I find the use of 能不能 kind of interesting -- it is super polite in English, but my experience is that they are asking you to bring them a book.

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babyeggplant

沙发~

Here it's kind of like "see if."

See if you can bring me a book next time you're out on business.

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bodawei

Hey babyeggplant (dude), I got the 沙发,哈哈。

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babyeggplant

you sure about that? ;)

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bodawei

啊呀!! 把那个花招怎么做?? :)