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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E16 (02:44) HSK 5
kàn shén me kàn bú yào yòng zhè zhǒng biǎo qíng kàn wǒ bǎ nǐ zhuā qǐ lái

看什么看 不要用这种表情看我 把你抓起来

“- Stop staring! - Don't look at me like that. I'll call the cops.”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E16
TIMECODE: 02:44 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shén jīng bìng nǐ hái shuō wǒ shén jīng bìng nǐ zài shuō nǐ méi kàn wǒ

神经病 你还说我神经病 你再说你没看我

“"Lunatic"? You're calling me a lunatic? You weren't staring at me?”

kàn shén me kàn bú yào yòng zhè zhǒng biǎo qíng kàn wǒ bǎ nǐ zhuā qǐ lái CURRENT FOCUS

看什么看 不要 用这种 表情 看我 把你抓起来

“- Stop staring! - Don't look at me like that. I'll call the cops.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bào jǐng gěi nǐ zhuā qǐ lái nǐ tīng dǒng le méi yǒu hǎo le hǎo le hǎo le

“I'll have you arrested. Do you hear me? Enough.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: VERBAL INTIMIDATION
Tone: AGGRESSIVE
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop judging me and back off right now, or I will make trouble for you.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Street Hostility and Staring Taboo

Prolonged eye contact in public spaces in China can be perceived as an explicit provocation or judgment, often triggering the fiery confrontational retort '看什么看'.

INTENT TAGS: #intimidation #confrontation #warning #defensiveness
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
看什么看 SPOKEN CHUNK

What are you looking at?

A highly confrontational and aggressive colloquial challenge used to warn someone to stop staring.

把你抓起来 SPOKEN CHUNK

have you arrested / lock you up

Used in colloquial disputes as an exaggerated threat of police intervention or detention.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

5 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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