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《Love Between Lines》 S1·E10 (09:17) HSK 6
zhào lǎo bǎn wǒ shì guò lái tōng zhī nǐ yī xià xià gè jì dù nǐ de diàn pù

赵老板 我是过来通知你一下 下个季度你的店铺

“Ms. Zhao, I'm just here to notify you that next quarter, your shop's rent”

《Love Between Lines》 S1·E10
TIMECODE: 09:17 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yǒu shén me shì ma

“What's the matter?”

zhào lǎo bǎn wǒ shì guò lái tōng zhī nǐ yī xià xià gè jì dù nǐ de diàn pù CURRENT FOCUS

赵老板 我是 过来 通知你一下 下个季度你的店铺

“Ms. Zhao, I'm just here to notify you that next quarter, your shop's rent”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yào àn guī dìng zhǎng zū

“will be raised according to regulations.”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION
Tone: BUSINESSLIKE AND CAUTIOUS
Emotion: CALM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I'm just the messenger doing my job, so don't get mad at me when I tell you the rent is going up.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Polite Framing of Unpleasant Business News

In Chinese business culture, couching an unwelcome demand like a rent hike behind polite honorifics ('赵老板') and procedural softening ('一下') buffers interpersonal friction.

INTENT TAGS: #notification #business_negotiation #hedging #formality
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
通知你一下 SPOKEN CHUNK

just to inform you; briefly notify you

A polite, standard phrasing used in workplace or business settings to deliver information without sounding excessively aggressive.

下个季度 SPOKEN CHUNK

next quarter

A common temporal expression in business and leasing contexts referring to the upcoming three-month period.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

4 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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