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《The Inner Eye》 S1·E4 (16:27) HSK 2
wèi shén me yào dà fèi zhōu zhé ràng nǐ

为什么要大费周折让你

“why go through all this trouble”

《The Inner Eye》 S1·E4
TIMECODE: 16:27 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zhè me jiǎn dān de yí gè jì huà shū

这么简单的一个计划书

“For something this basic,”

wèi shén me yào dà fèi zhōu zhé ràng nǐ CURRENT FOCUS

为什么要 大费周折 让你

“why go through all this trouble”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN lái ná gěi wǒ ne

来拿给我呢

“and send you to me?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: QUESTIONING MOTIVES
Tone: INQUISITIVE
Emotion: SUSPICION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“There has to be a hidden motive for sending you to deliver such a simple proposal.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Reading Between the Lines in Bureaucracy

In Chinese business culture, when a seemingly routine administrative errand is assigned to a specific person, it often carries deliberate political or relational implications that observers scrutinize.

INTENT TAGS: #probing #suspicion #scrutinizing #skepticism
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
大费周折 SPOKEN CHUNK

to go to great trouble / to take great pains

An idiom used when someone spends excessive effort, time, or complications to achieve something relatively simple.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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