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《Road to Success》 S1·E5 (14:49) HSK 4
bú shì shuō hǎo le ma nǐ yíng le wǒ cái dāng jiào liàn

不是说好了吗 你赢了 我才当教练

“Didn't we agree I'd only be the coach if you won?”

《Road to Success》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 14:49 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shàng wǔ nǐ shū le xià wǔ wǒ shū le suàn píng jú

“You lost in the morning, and I lost this afternoon. So, it's a tie.”

bú shì shuō hǎo le ma nǐ yíng le wǒ cái dāng jiào liàn CURRENT FOCUS

不是说好了吗 你赢了 我才当教练

“Didn't we agree I'd only be the coach if you won?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN hǎo

好

“Fine.”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: REMINDING AGREEMENT
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: DEFENSIVENESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“A tie doesn't count, so I am off the hook unless you actually beat me.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Verbal Commitments (君子协定)

Informal peer agreements rely heavily on verbal honor, where reminding someone of 'what was agreed' carries strong conversational leverage.

INTENT TAGS: #reminding #holding_ground #hedging #clarification
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
不是说好了吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

didn't we already agree on this

A rhetorical question used to hold someone accountable to an earlier verbal agreement.

才 SPOKEN CHUNK

only then; only under the condition that

Used after a conditional clause to indicate that the outcome is strictly contingent on that condition being met.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Turns the statement into a rhetorical question to demand confirmation and invoke accountability.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 5 GRAMMAR
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