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《Lady Liberty》 S1·E28 (34:54) HSK 4
suǒ yǐ ràng tā liú xià lái de kě néng xìng jī hū kě yǐ shuō shì wēi hū qí wēi

所以让他留下来的可能性 几乎可以说是微乎其微

“So the chances of keeping him are small.”

《Lady Liberty》 S1·E28
TIMECODE: 34:54 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ men gēn běn bǐ bù guò

我们根本比不过

“There's no way we can compete.”

suǒ yǐ ràng tā liú xià lái de kě néng xìng jī hū kě yǐ shuō shì wēi hū qí wēi CURRENT FOCUS

所以 让他 留下来的 可能性 几乎 可以说是 微乎其微

“So the chances of keeping him are small.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN rú guǒ àn zhào wéi yuē hé tóng péi qián de huà yǐ tā xiàn zài de jià zhí

如果按照违约合同赔钱的话 以他现在的价值

“And if we go by the breach of contract terms, with his current value,”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: ASSESSING PROBABILITY
Tone: OBJECTIVE
Emotion: RESIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Face reality: we have lost him, so let us focus on damage control and the contract.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Commercial Pragmatism in Chinese Business

Rather than relying on sentiment, modern Chinese corporate decision-making prioritizes hard assessments of market value and contract enforceability.

INTENT TAGS: #evaluation #resignation #reality_check #hedging
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
微乎其微 SPOKEN CHUNK

extremely tiny / negligible / next to nothing

A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) used to emphasize that an amount or probability is virtually zero.

几乎可以说是 SPOKEN CHUNK

it could almost be said that

A pragmatic hedging pattern used in professional contexts to soften definitive statements while maintaining a strong conclusion.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
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