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《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E19 (35:15) HSK 6
tā men jiù shì yī qún hēi xīn làn gān de dǎi dú zhī rén

他们就是一群 黑心烂肝的歹毒之人

“They were just a bunch of cold-hearted, rotten, and vicious people.”

《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E19
TIMECODE: 35:15 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ men zhī jiān jiū jìng yǒu hé ēn yuàn ràng nǐ duì tā xià cǐ hěn shǒu

你们之间究竟有何恩怨 让你对他下此狠手

“What kind of grudge did you two have that drove you to harm him so severely?”

tā men jiù shì yī qún hēi xīn làn gān de dǎi dú zhī rén CURRENT FOCUS

他们 就是 一群 黑心烂肝 的歹毒之人

“They were just a bunch of cold-hearted, rotten, and vicious people.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yīn wèi tā men

因为他们

“Because they”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: JUSTIFYING ACTION
Tone: FURIOUS
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't judge me—they are pure evil and fully deserved everything I did to them!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Moral Retribution (Baoying)

In Chinese narrative ethics, extreme personal retaliation is often psychologically rationalized by dehumanizing antagonists as utterly lacking moral conscience.

INTENT TAGS: #justification #condemning #venting_anger #vilifying
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
黑心烂肝 SPOKEN CHUNK

rotten to the core; thoroughly wicked

A vivid and vehement idiom used in spoken Chinese to curse someone's complete lack of conscience.

歹毒之人 SPOKEN CHUNK

sinister and malicious people

Used to describe individuals who harbor cruel and venomous intentions toward others.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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