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《Lady Liberty》 S1·E7 (03:33) HSK 6
bù jiù shì yīn wèi guā zhōu nà duàn bèi rén chāo le suǒ yǐ wǒ men bǎ tā rēng le ma

不就是因为瓜州那段被人抄了 所以我们把它扔了吗

“Someone plagiarized the Guazhou section, which is why we threw it away.”

《Lady Liberty》 S1·E7
TIMECODE: 03:33 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ wàng le

你忘了

“Have you forgotten?”

bù jiù shì yīn wèi guā zhōu nà duàn bèi rén chāo le suǒ yǐ wǒ men bǎ tā rēng le ma CURRENT FOCUS

不就是因为 瓜州那段被人抄了 所以 我们把它 扔了 吗

“Someone plagiarized the Guazhou section, which is why we threw it away.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN gàn má

干吗

“Why?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: CLARIFYING PAST DECISION
Tone: INCREDULOUS
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Why are you bringing this up again when we already settled this issue?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Direct Workplace Pushback Among Peers

Among close colleagues or peers under time pressure, rhetorical questions starting with '不就是' serve as quick, unvarnished reality checks.

INTENT TAGS: #reminding #rhetorical_question #clarification #defensiveness
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
不就是因为 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't it precisely because...

Use this rhetorical pattern to point out an obvious reason and challenge another person's doubts.

被人抄了 SPOKEN CHUNK

was plagiarized / copied by someone

A colloquial passive construction commonly used when creative work or intellectual property is stolen.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Forms a rhetorical question to demand confirmation about a known fact.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 7 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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