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《The Dream Maker》 S1·E32 (07:25) HSK 4
wǒ kàn nǐ jiù shì gāi dǎ guō fù guì nǐ shì rén ma wǒ shì rén a

我看你就是该打 郭富贵 你是人吗 我是人啊

“You deserve a beating. Are you even human? I'm human!”

《The Dream Maker》 S1·E32
TIMECODE: 07:25 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yìn shuā yè yě huì gǎo dé yuè lái yuè hǎo kě jié guǒ ne nǐ kàn kàn

印刷业也会搞得 越来越好 可结果呢 你看看

“She said the printing industry would boom. As a result?”

wǒ kàn nǐ jiù shì gāi dǎ guō fù guì nǐ shì rén ma wǒ shì rén a CURRENT FOCUS

我看 你就是该打 郭富贵 你是人吗 我是 人啊

“You deserve a beating. Are you even human? I'm human!”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nà zhèng qián de shí hòu nǐ tōu zhe lè duì nǐ tōu zhe lè

“- You were thrilled when making money. - Totally thrilled.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: VERBAL ASSAULT
Tone: ACCUSATORY
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You have no conscience or decency left, and you deserve physical punishment!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Humanity as Moral Baseline (Zuo Ren)

Asking 'Are you human?' (你是人吗) is one of the strongest moral indictments in spoken Chinese, suggesting the accused lacks basic conscience (良心).

INTENT TAGS: #moral_condemnation #confrontation #venting_anger #retaliation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 2 PARTICLES
该打 SPOKEN CHUNK

deserves a beating

An emotive idiom used when someone has done something morally reprehensible or infuriating.

你是人吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

are you even human?

A heavy rhetorical accusation attacking someone's conscience and moral baseline.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Used here in a rhetorical question to express moral outrage rather than genuinely seeking information.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Used by the respondent to make a defensive, indignant assertion of their humanity.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

4 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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