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《Road to Success》 S1·E14 (18:42) HSK 4
xué xiào míng lìng jìn zhǐ dài shǒu jī bù zhī dào ma

学校明令禁止带手机不知道吗

“Don't you know phones are strictly prohibited at school?”

《Road to Success》 S1·E14
TIMECODE: 18:42 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ bù guǎn nǐ zuò shén me

我不管你做什么

“I don't care what you were doing.”

xué xiào míng lìng jìn zhǐ dài shǒu jī bù zhī dào ma CURRENT FOCUS

学校 明令禁止 带手机 不知道吗

“Don't you know phones are strictly prohibited at school?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bú shì wǒ liǎ zhēn bú huì zhēn jiù sōu le gè zhù shì shǒu jī jiāo chū lái

“No, we really didn't know it. -We really only looked up the annotation. -Hand over your phone.”

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Scene: School & Education
Function: REPRIMANDING
Tone: AUTHORITATIVE
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You know full well this isn't allowed, so stop making excuses and surrender the phone.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Strict Mobile Phone Bans in Chinese Schools

Primary and secondary schools in China enforce strict prohibitions on smartphones to prevent distractions and cheating during academic studies.

INTENT TAGS: #reprimand #enforcing_rules #rhetorical_question #authority
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
明令禁止 SPOKEN CHUNK

explicitly and strictly prohibited

Used in formal or disciplinary contexts to emphasize that a rule has been clearly articulated and leaves no room for ambiguity.

不知道吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

don't you know?

A rhetorical question used to reprimand someone who acts like they are unaware of a well-established rule.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Turns the sentence into an accusatory rhetorical question that expects guilt rather than a real answer.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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