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《The Knockout》 S1·E1 (29:54) HSK 7
shì bú shì tài qī fù rén le

是不是太欺负人了

“They were bullying him.”

《The Knockout》 S1·E1
TIMECODE: 29:54 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN sòng de dōng xī hái néng yào huí lái ne

“How can you get back what you gave?”

shì bú shì tài qī fù rén le CURRENT FOCUS

是不是 太欺负人了

“They were bullying him.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ shuō de zhè xiē wǒ men hái dé hé shí wǒ xiàn zài wèn nǐ

你说的这些 我们还得核实 我现在问你

“We need to verify what you said. Let me ask you.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: APPEALING FOR JUSTICE
Tone: AGGRIEVED
Emotion: INDIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You have to help me, they are treating me completely unfairly!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Appealing to Common Decency (讲理)

Chinese speakers often invoke rhetorical appeals like 'bullying people' to mobilize the listener's innate sense of fairness and moral obligation.

INTENT TAGS: #complaining #protesting #seeking_sympathy #venting
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
欺负人 SPOKEN CHUNK

to bully someone; to treat someone unfairly

A common spoken chunk used when expressing outrage at being taken advantage of or mistreated.

是不是太 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't it a bit too...

A rhetorical framing pattern used to prompt agreement that a boundary has been crossed.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Indicates that an unacceptable threshold or extreme degree of mistreatment has been reached.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

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