"Please call an ambulance for me."
Translation:请帮我叫救护车。
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"Please help me call an ambulance" is a better English translation maybe.
I think "请为我叫救护车” would translate to "Please call an ambulance for me".
Right?
請為我叫救護車 is very polite in Chinese, so saying 請幫我叫救護車 would most likely be what a Chinese person would say if they're injured and they don't care about being cordial.
Like in English, if you broke your legs in half and calmly said to the man walking past, "Could you please call the ambulance on behalf of me?"
报警 is "report (to ) police". 叫救护车 is "call an ambulance". When you call the police you report an incident. In English we say "call the police" but in chinese it's "report (to the ) police".
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So is 报警 something you do once the urgency has passed (e.g.after an accident to give names and details) or would it also be apt to describe what a householder does in an emergency (e.g. when they hear an intruder at 3 am)?
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"Please call an ambulance" is asking someone to call an ambulance. That's totally different from requesting assistance so that I can call one.
In Chinese, requests with 帮 are often asking the other person to "help you by doing the thing for you", not always to assist you as you do the thing.
请对我叫救护车 is a more accurate translation. The current accepted answer translates to "Please help me call an ambulance"
The audio for the Word Bank bubble for "ambulance" sounds almost like jiùfùchē.
