MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E9 (37:49) HSK 5
zhāng yuàn zhǎng dǎ bào gào dōu dǎ le yī nián le

张院长打报告 都打了一年了

“Director Zhang has been applying for it for a year now.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E9
TIMECODE: 37:49 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN dōu gěi xiàn yī yuàn a

都给县医院啊

“goes to the County Hospital?”

zhāng yuàn zhǎng dǎ bào gào dōu dǎ le yī nián le CURRENT FOCUS

张院长 打报告 都打了一年了

“Director Zhang has been applying for it for a year now.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN ér qiě zhè wǔ wàn kuài qián yě shì kǎn guò de

而且这五万块钱 也是砍过的

“And this 50,000 was already cut down.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Workplace
Function: JUSTIFYING
Tone: PLEADING
Emotion: EARNESTNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“He didn't just ask yesterday; this is an urgent, long-delayed matter that we can no longer ignore.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Bureaucratic Application Culture (Dabaogao)

In Chinese public sector units (tizhi nei), resource allocation strictly depends on submitting formal reports (dabaogao) through hierarchy, where prolonged waits are common.

INTENT TAGS: #advocacy #justification #persuasion #bureaucracy
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
打报告 SPOKEN CHUNK

to submit a formal written request or report

Standard administrative idiom in bureaucratic and state-owned workplace settings for requesting approvals or funds.

都……了 SPOKEN CHUNK

already (emphasizing excess or prolonged duration)

Use this structure to emphasize that a situation has persisted for an unreasonably long time.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Emphasizes the completion and continuation of an excessive duration of time (one full year).

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E9 (37:49) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus