MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Tang Mist》 S1·E6 (06:24) HSK 6
shì chū bì yǒu yīn

事出必有因

“There's a reason for everything.”

《The Tang Mist》 S1·E6
TIMECODE: 06:24 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN pàn sǐ

判死

“Execute her!”

shì chū bì yǒu yīn CURRENT FOCUS

事出必有因

“There's a reason for everything.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ huō chū mìng qù zuò de zhè yī qiè

“You risked your life to do all this.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Legal & Police
Function: PROBING MOTIVE
Tone: PROBING
Emotion: SUSPICION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop pretending this was random; tell me what drove you to do this.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Causal Inquiry in Interrogation

Chinese interpersonal rhetoric often appeals to objective principles of cause and effect to corner an opponent into acknowledging their underlying purpose.

INTENT TAGS: #interrogating #probing #challenging #reasoning
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
事出必有因 SPOKEN CHUNK

everything happens for a reason / there is a cause behind every effect

A common idiomatic formulation used when investigating strange behavior, crimes, or unexpected events.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR BLUEPRINTS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Tang Mist》 S1·E6 (06:24) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus