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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31 (02:34) HSK 4
nǐ bú shì yě huái yí wú jiāng ma nà zhǐ shì huái yí

你不是也怀疑吴江吗 那只是怀疑

“Don't you suspect Wu Jiang too? That's just a suspicion.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31
TIMECODE: 02:34 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN diào chá xīn hǎi

调查鑫海

“But investigating Xinhai...”

nǐ bú shì yě huái yí wú jiāng ma nà zhǐ shì huái yí CURRENT FOCUS

你 不是也 怀疑 吴江 吗 那 只是怀疑

“Don't you suspect Wu Jiang too? That's just a suspicion.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN xīn hǎi shì shì lǐ zhòng diǎn qǐ yè

鑫海是市里重点企业

“Xinhai is a key corporation in the city.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: CHALLENGING AND HEDGING
Tone: PROBING
Emotion: ANXIETY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You suspected him just like I do, but we need solid proof before touching such an influential company.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Administrative Caution vs. Personal Intuition

In Chinese institutional and legal contexts, personal suspicions must be sharply distinguished from actionable proof, especially when dealing with key local enterprises (重点企业).

INTENT TAGS: #confrontation #distinction #caution #probing
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
你不是也 SPOKEN CHUNK

didn't you also...

Used to point out a shared consensus or confront someone with their own prior stance.

那只是 SPOKEN CHUNK

that is merely / that is only

Used to minimize or downgrade the weight of a preceding point.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Frames the statement as a rhetorical confirmation question to challenge the interlocutor.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
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