"Please call an ambulance for me."

Translation: 请帮我叫救护车。

[daltonstout59]

"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?

[Levi]

I agree.
2018.10.20

[bewe33]

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?"

[shanelzheng]

BUTTT, if you were the person helping an injured person, that's what you'd say.

[Marc331608]

Why is it报警 and 叫救护车 . Are 叫 and 报 interchangeable?

[grippygecko]

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".

[Charlimagnus]

请对我叫救护车 is a more accurate translation. The current accepted answer translates to "Please help me call an ambulance"

[bewe33]

No it's not. No Chinese person would say that

[shanelzheng]

That would be more like Please ask me for an ambulance.

[RajasDaithankar]

@Charlie - good. Maybe someone else can become equally picky about what your Chinese sentence means and "correct" it further.
Clearly, this Duo module is not about understanding and learning Chinese, but about teaching the Chinese how they should modify their defective language to conform with English standards. :-)

[juanluisme845441]

请帮我报警。。。should be accepted///same meaning