I hope you don't mind my asking, but I wonder if it might be at all possible for you to lend me your car.
希望你不介意我的请求,我不知道你是否可以把车借我用一用。
but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect.
但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护,似乎年长就是受人尊敬的理由。