汤姆对玛丽说，不要浪费时间去说服约翰来帮忙。 - Zhictionary

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汤姆对玛丽说，不要浪费时间去说服约翰来帮忙。

Tom told Mary not to waste her time trying to convince John to help.

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Sentence Composition

right; correct
towards; at; for
concerning; regarding
to treat (sb a certain way)
to face
(bound form) opposite; facing; matching
to match together; to adjust
to fit; to suit
to answer; to reply
to add; to pour in (a fluid)
to check; to compare
classifier: couple; pair

Mary or Marie (name)
Mali

to speak; to talk; to say
to explain; to comment
to scold; to tell off
(bound form) theory; doctrine

variant of 說 shuō

don't!; must not

to waste
to squander

(concept of) time
(duration of) time
(point in) time

to go
to go to (a place)
(of a time etc) last
just passed
to send
to remove
to get rid of
to reduce
to be apart from in space or time
to die (euphemism)
to play (a part)
(when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
(used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

to persuade
to convince
to talk sb over
Taiwan pr. shuìfú

John (name)
Johan (name)
Johann (name)

to come
(used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
for the past (amount of time)
(prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
(between two verbs) in order to
(after a round number) approximately
(used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)

to help
to lend a hand
to do a favor
to do a good turn