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《COURT!》 S1·E12 (12:00) HSK 1
yě bù néng zài kàn jiàn nǐ men qī lí zǐ sàn le

也不能再看见你们妻离子散了

“I won't let your families be torn apart because of me.”

《COURT!》 S1·E12
TIMECODE: 12:00 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ bù xiǎng

我不想

“I won't let your families be torn apart because of me.”

yě bù néng zài kàn jiàn nǐ men qī lí zǐ sàn le CURRENT FOCUS

也不能 再 看见 你们 妻离子散 了

“I won't let your families be torn apart because of me.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN shuí shuō wǒ men qī lí zǐ sàn le

谁说我们妻离子散了

“Who says our families are being torn apart?”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: EXPRESSING CONCERN
Tone: PLEADING
Emotion: DISTRESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Wake up and stop this madness before your family is completely destroyed.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Family Wholeness (Yuanman)

In Chinese culture, a broken home ('妻离子散') represents one of the worst human misfortunes, making invoke of this phrase an emotionally devastating wake-up call.

INTENT TAGS: #intervention #warning #family_preservation #pleading
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
妻离子散 SPOKEN CHUNK

wives and children scattered; family torn apart

A heavy four-character idiom (chengyu) used to describe catastrophic familial tragedy and breakdown.

也不能 SPOKEN CHUNK

nor can (one); cannot either

Used to add an emphatic, prohibitive consideration continuing from a previous negative condition.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks a change of state, stressing that the current painful situation must not continue.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 7 GRAMMAR
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