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《Lady Liberty》 S1·E1 (22:15) HSK 6
mù qián nǐ men gōng sī de gāo céng jù wǒ suǒ zhī dōu shì nán shì

目前你们公司的高层 据我所知都是男士

“As far as I know, your company's senior management is all men.”

《Lady Liberty》 S1·E1
TIMECODE: 22:15 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN liǎn hé nǎo zi zhǐ néng èr xuǎn yī

“it's either looks or brains?”

mù qián nǐ men gōng sī de gāo céng jù wǒ suǒ zhī dōu shì nán shì CURRENT FOCUS

目前你们公司 的 高层 据我所知 都 是 男士

“As far as I know, your company's senior management is all men.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nà yòu zěn me yàng

那又怎么样

“So what?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: RAISING AN ISSUE
Tone: PROBING
Emotion: SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Your company clearly has a glass ceiling for women, doesn't it?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Indirect Workplace Critique (Hanxu)

In Chinese business culture, pointing out structural flaws or biases is usually prefaced with epistemic hedges like 'as far as I know' to soften the potential confrontation.

INTENT TAGS: #questioning #hedging #challenging #probing
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
据我所知 SPOKEN CHUNK

as far as I know

A formal hedging phrase used to state a fact gently without sounding overly dogmatic or aggressive.

高层 SPOKEN CHUNK

upper management / high-level executives

Standard corporate vocabulary referring to senior executives or company leadership.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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