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《Road to Success》 S1·E5 (05:56) HSK 6
nǐ bú shì shuō liǎng xiǎo shí kě yǐ xiāo hào bā bǎi dà kǎ ma

你不是说两小时 可以消耗八百大卡吗

“Didn't you say two hours would burn 800 kcal?”

《Road to Success》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 05:56 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN dàn shì què zhǐ xiāo hào le yì bǎi èr shí dà kǎ zěn me huì

但是却只消耗了一百二十大卡 怎么会

“but you've only burned 120 kcal. How is that possible?”

nǐ bú shì shuō liǎng xiǎo shí kě yǐ xiāo hào bā bǎi dà kǎ ma CURRENT FOCUS

你不是说 两小时 可以消耗八百大卡吗

“Didn't you say two hours would burn 800 kcal?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ xīn lǜ tài dī le yào xiǎng tí gāo xīn lǜ zhǐ néng tí sù huò zhě pá pō

“Your heart rate is too low. To raise it, you need to speed up or go uphill.”

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Scene: Medical & Health
Function: QUESTIONING EXPECTATION
Tone: QUESTIONING
Emotion: SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You promised me 800 calories, so why did I only burn 120?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Rhetorical Confrontation Using '你不是说'

Starting a question with 'Didn't you say...' is an everyday spoken pattern to directly hold an interlocutor accountable to their earlier claims.

INTENT TAGS: #challenging #accountability #skepticism #clarification
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
你不是说 SPOKEN CHUNK

didn't you say...

Standard rhetorical opener used to confront someone with a statement they previously made.

消耗八百大卡 SPOKEN CHUNK

burn 800 calories (kcal)

Common fitness terminology referring to energy expenditure.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the rhetorical question, demanding confirmation or accountability for the prior claim.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

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