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《Hold A Court Now》 S1·E18 (04:42) HSK 7
zhè xǐ yī zuò fàn duān shǐ duān niào jiù suàn le zhè lǎo rén jiā kàn bìng

这洗衣 做饭 端屎 端尿就算了 这老人家看病

“Doing laundry, cooking, even handling his toileting needs, not to mention taking him to the hospital,”

《Hold A Court Now》 S1·E18
TIMECODE: 04:42 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN ér qiě nín zì jǐ běn lái shēn tǐ jiù bù hǎo

而且您自己本来身体就不好

“And your own health is not good to begin with.”

zhè xǐ yī zuò fàn duān shǐ duān niào jiù suàn le zhè lǎo rén jiā kàn bìng CURRENT FOCUS

这洗衣 做饭 端屎 端尿 就算了 这老 人家 看病

“Doing laundry, cooking, even handling his toileting needs, not to mention taking him to the hospital,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN tái shàng tái xià fēng lǐ yǔ lǐ yě dōu zhǐ zhe nín yí gè rén

“carrying him up and down, through wind and rain, all of it depended on you alone.”

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Scene: Family & Home
Function: EXPRESSING SYMPATHY
Tone: SYMPATHETIC
Emotion: CONCERN
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You are taking on way too much by yourself, and you will ruin your own health if you keep doing this.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Filial Caregiving Burden (Xiao Dao)

In Chinese culture, intensive physical care for aging parents is traditionally viewed as an absolute filial duty, though it frequently imposes severe emotional and physical strain on family caregivers.

INTENT TAGS: #sympathy #persuasion #concern #highlighting_burden
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
端屎端尿 SPOKEN CHUNK

emptying bedpans; cleaning up bodily waste for an invalid

A vivid colloquial idiom describing the most demanding, unglamorous physical nursing tasks for an invalid or elderly relative.

就算了 SPOKEN CHUNK

let it be; that might be tolerable, but...

Used to concede that an earlier hardship could be overlooked in contrast to an even greater upcoming burden.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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