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《Vanished Name》 S1·E21 (15:08) HSK 7
bù qù rén jiā yě bù xī hǎn jiàn wǒ

不去 人家也不稀罕见我

“I won't go. She doesn't care to see me.”

《Vanished Name》 S1·E21
TIMECODE: 15:08 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zhè yī zǒu yòu shì yī nián jiàn bù zhe le

“it'll be another year before you see her.”

bù qù rén jiā yě bù xī hǎn jiàn wǒ CURRENT FOCUS

不去 人家 也不 稀罕 见我

“I won't go. She doesn't care to see me.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN kě zhè shǒu tào nǐ liú zhe yě méi shá yòng

可这手套你留着也没啥用

“Keeping these gloves won't help you.”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: REFUSING INVITATION
Tone: DEFENSIVE
Emotion: RESENTMENT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I want to see them, but it hurts knowing they don't care about me, so I won't humiliate myself.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Saving Face in Rejection (Aiqing Mianzi)

Saying that the other person 'doesn't care to see me' allows the speaker to save face by pre-emptively rejecting a meeting where they feel unwanted.

INTENT TAGS: #refusal #face_saving #resentment #feigned_indifference
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
不稀罕 SPOKEN CHUNK

not care for / look down upon / have no interest in

A northern dialectal colloquialism used to express that someone does not value or care about something.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

4 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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