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《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E9 (15:32) HSK 6
jiù suàn nǐ jiāng tā shéng zhī yǐ fǎ tā men yě huó zhuǎn bù guò lái

就算你将他绳之以法 她们也活转不过来

“Even if you bring the criminal to justice, they cannot come back to life.”

《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E9
TIMECODE: 15:32 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN hé wèi gōng dào

何为公道

“What is justice?”

jiù suàn nǐ jiāng tā shéng zhī yǐ fǎ tā men yě huó zhuǎn bù guò lái CURRENT FOCUS

就算 你将他 绳之以法 她们也活转不 过来

“Even if you bring the criminal to justice, they cannot come back to life.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhè suǒ wèi gōng dào duì tā men yǒu hé yòng xǐ yuān zé wù

这所谓公道对她们有何用 洗冤泽物

“What good is this so-called justice to them now? Clearing injustice and restoring names”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: CHALLENGING BELIEF
Tone: CONFRONTATIONAL
Emotion: CYNICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Your pursuit of justice is pointless because it changes nothing for the victims.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Justice versus Irreversible Loss

Reflects an existential debate in Chinese storytelling between institutional retribution (gongdao) and the emotional reality of irreparable tragedy.

INTENT TAGS: #cynicism #challenging_morality #confrontation #philosophical_rebuttal
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
绳之以法 SPOKEN CHUNK

bring to justice; punish by law

A common four-character idiom (chengyu) used when referring to legal apprehension and punishment of wrongdoers.

活转过来 SPOKEN CHUNK

revive; come back to life

A literary and spoken resultative construction referring to restoring someone from death back to life.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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