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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E18 (34:19) HSK 5
wǒ men zhè xiē xiāo shòu bǎ tuǐ pǎo duàn le yě pǎo bù guò lái

我们这些销售 把腿跑断了也跑不过来

“Our sales team can't cover them all.”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E18
TIMECODE: 34:19 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN guāng yí gè xīn hé qū jiù yǒu èr bǎi duō jiā xiàn xià mén diàn

光一个新河区 就有二百多家线下门店

“Xinhe District alone has over 200 stores.”

wǒ men zhè xiē xiāo shòu bǎ tuǐ pǎo duàn le yě pǎo bù guò lái CURRENT FOCUS

我们这些销售 把腿跑断了 也跑 不过 来

“Our sales team can't cover them all.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhào méi nǐ de rén duō

赵玫 你的人多

“Zhao Mei, you have more people.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: COMPLAINING ABOUT WORKLOAD
Tone: EXAGGERATED
Emotion: EXHAUSTION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You have to give us more staff, otherwise this target cannot be met.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Voicing Hardship (叫苦) in Hierarchies

Subordinates use hyperbole like 'breaking legs' to prove good faith effort while justifying why an unrealistic executive target cannot be fulfilled without additional resources.

INTENT TAGS: #pleading_for_resources #workload_complaint #exaggeration
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
跑断了腿 SPOKEN CHUNK

to run one's legs off / wear oneself out running around

An exaggerated spoken idiom to describe extreme physical exhaustion from running errands or visiting clients.

跑不过来 SPOKEN CHUNK

cannot cover in time / impossible to visit everyone

A potential complement expressing inability to handle the sheer volume of locations.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the hypothetical completed extreme state within the conditional clause.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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