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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31 (16:13) HSK 7
nǐ hái fèi zhè jìn gàn shén me ya tā yì zhí kàn wǒ bù shùn yǎn

你还费这劲干什么呀 他一直看我不顺眼

“Why go through all this trouble? He's never liked me.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31
TIMECODE: 16:13 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà zhè shì nǐ kě yǐ zhí jiē qù zhǎo bái dà chūn a

那这事你可以 直接去找白大椿啊

“Well, for that, you can go straight to Bai Chun.”

nǐ hái fèi zhè jìn gàn shén me ya tā yì zhí kàn wǒ bù shùn yǎn CURRENT FOCUS

你还费这劲 干什么呀 他一直 看我不顺眼

“Why go through all this trouble? He's never liked me.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ yòu bú shì bù zhī dào

你又不是不知道

“You know that.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: DISSUADING
Tone: DISMISSIVE
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't bother suggesting that; it's a complete waste of time because he hates my guts.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Renqing and Interpersonal Friction

In Chinese professional environments, personal sentiment (顺眼/不顺眼) often dictates whether official business goes smoothly, making hostile relationships nearly impossible to bypass.

INTENT TAGS: #dismissal #rejection #explaining_futility
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
费这劲 SPOKEN CHUNK

go through all that trouble / waste that effort

Use this spoken idiom to question or discourage useless effort.

看我不顺眼 SPOKEN CHUNK

dislike me / have an issue with me

A very colloquial way to express that someone finds you annoying or displeasing without a concrete operational reason.

Modal Particle「呀」 (ya) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the rhetorical question while conveying mild exasperation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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