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《Generation to Generation》 S1·E1 (33:09) HSK 4
hái fèi jìn xīn jī de xiǎng bǎ wǒ lā xià shuǐ

还费尽心机的想把我拉下水

“(He even schemed to drag me in.)”

《Generation to Generation》 S1·E1
TIMECODE: 33:09 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN hǎo xīn yāo shī xiōng men péi wǒ jiě mèn

好心邀师兄们陪我解闷

“to keep me company to relieve boredom.”

hái fèi jìn xīn jī de xiǎng bǎ wǒ lā xià shuǐ CURRENT FOCUS

还 费尽心机 的想 把 我 拉下水

“(He even schemed to drag me in.)”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhāo zhāo mèi mèi

昭昭妹妹

“Zhao,”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: EXPOSING HYPOCRISY
Tone: ACCUSATORY
Emotion: INDIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop pretending to be nice; you just wanted to drag me into your mess.”
💡 Cultural Insight: La Xia Shui (Dragging into the Water)

A pervasive Chinese metaphor for corrupting others or forcing bystanders into complicity to deflect individual blame.

INTENT TAGS: #confrontation #blame #exposure #distrust
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
费尽心机 SPOKEN CHUNK

to rack one's brains; to exhaust all schemes

Typically used with negative connotations to describe someone plotting or conniving elaborately.

拉下水 SPOKEN CHUNK

to drag into the water; to implicate someone in wrongdoing

A common colloquial idiom meaning to make someone an accomplice or pull them into shared trouble.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
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