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《Light to the Night》 S1·E12 (26:40) HSK 5
zhè diǎn cháng shí dàn fán dǒng diǎn kē xué de rén dōu dǒng

这点常识 但凡懂点科学的人都懂

“Anyone with basic scientific knowledge would understand that.”

《Light to the Night》 S1·E12
TIMECODE: 26:40 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yī yuàn de zhěn duàn shū bú huì piàn rén ba ?

“Hospital reports don't lie, do they?”

zhè diǎn cháng shí dàn fán dǒng diǎn kē xué de rén dōu dǒng CURRENT FOCUS

这点常识 但凡 懂点科学的人都懂

“Anyone with basic scientific knowledge would understand that.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ hái zhēn shì dì yī cì jiàn zhe xià dú lián zì jǐ dōu bù fàng guò de rén

我还真是第一次见着 下毒连自己都不放过的人

“This is the first time I've seen someone poison others and not spare himself.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: DISMISSING OBJECTION
Tone: CONDESCENDING
Emotion: CONTEMPT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You'd have to be totally ignorant not to see this.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Appealing to 'Common Sense' (常识) in Arguments

In Chinese debates, invoking 'common sense' combined with 'science' is often used rhetorically to discredit an opponent's reasoning without engaging in complex debate.

INTENT TAGS: #dismissal #condescension #refutation #belittling
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
这点常识 SPOKEN CHUNK

this bit of common sense

Used to belittle an issue as elementary or trivial to understand.

但凡...都... SPOKEN CHUNK

if only someone has even a bit of... they would inevitably...

A common rhetorical construction to emphasize that anyone meeting the bare minimum condition would do or understand something.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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