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《Hold A Court Now》 S1·E12 (40:42) HSK 7
bú shì zǎo jiù diào chá qīng chǔ le ma zěn me tā hái jiū zhe nǐ bù fàng

不是早就调查清楚了吗 怎么她还揪着你不放

“(Tianhai Public Safety Command Center) (Wasn't that case cleared a long time ago?) (Why won't she just let it go?)”

《Hold A Court Now》 S1·E12
TIMECODE: 40:42 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN tóng tóng zhè cì jiù shì chōng zhe wǒ lái de nà jiàn àn zi

彤彤这次就是冲着我来的 那件案子

“(Tong is coming after me this time.) (Tianhai Public Safety Command Center) (Wasn't that case cleared a long time ago?)”

bú shì zǎo jiù diào chá qīng chǔ le ma zěn me tā hái jiū zhe nǐ bù fàng CURRENT FOCUS

不是 早就 调查清楚 了吗 怎么 她还 揪着你不放

“(Tianhai Public Safety Command Center) (Wasn't that case cleared a long time ago?) (Why won't she just let it go?)”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zài tóng tóng yǎn lǐ wǒ men fǎ guān hé jǐng chá dōu shì yī qiū zhī hé

在彤彤眼里 我们法官和警察都是一丘之貉

“(Outside Qi Xin Tian) (To Tong,) (judges and cops are all just the same.)”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: EXPRESSING BEWILDERMENT
Tone: INCREDULOUS
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“This matter is done with, so she has no right to keep coming after you.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Grievance and Procedural Distrust

In Chinese legal dramas, aggrieved citizens often struggle to accept official conclusions and continue to pursue individual officials, perceiving the system as a monolith.

INTENT TAGS: #incredulity #defending_peer #questioning #frustration
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
揪着你不放 SPOKEN CHUNK

refusing to let you off the hook; constantly targeting or pestering someone

Use this idiom when someone relentlessly harasses, blames, or obsesses over holding a specific person accountable.

调查清楚 SPOKEN CHUNK

investigate thoroughly and clarify

A common verb-complement structure used when an issue, crime, or misunderstanding has been definitively resolved.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Forms a rhetorical question emphasizing that the fact is already well established.

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5 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
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