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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31 (16:52) HSK 5
kàn jiàn le jiù bù néng dàng zuò méi kàn jiàn

看见了 就不能当作没看见

“if I see it, I can't pretend I didn't.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31
TIMECODE: 16:52 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN jiù yòu kāi shǐ kāi cǎi le yùn shū duì sī jī dōu máng zhe ne wǒ zuò wéi jì zhě

就又开始开采了 运输队司机都忙着呢 我作为记者

“and then started operating again. The transport drivers are all busy. As a reporter,”

kàn jiàn le jiù bù néng dàng zuò méi kàn jiàn CURRENT FOCUS

看见了 就 不能 当作没看见

“if I see it, I can't pretend I didn't.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhè jiù shì lù tiān kuàng a

这就是露天矿啊

“This is an open-pit mine.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: AFFIRMING DUTY
Tone: RESOLUTE
Emotion: DETERMINATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I know what I saw, and there is no way I am going to pretend it did not happen.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Professional Integrity and Conscience

In Chinese workplace ethics, standing by one's conscience against pressure highlights moral uprightness, especially for journalists or inspectors.

INTENT TAGS: #determination #moral_duty #refusal_to_compromise #assertion
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
当作 SPOKEN CHUNK

to treat as; to regard as; to pretend to be

Commonly used in spoken Chinese to express pretending something is the case or treating one thing as another.

就不能 SPOKEN CHUNK

simply cannot; must not

Used to express a logical consequence or moral impossibility following an established condition.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the completed action of having witnessed the event, establishing the factual premise.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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