《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E1 (10:14)
HSK 6
liú zhuó lì qì xiě bào gào ma
留着力气写报告嘛
“Save your energy for writing the report.”
《Born to Be Alive》
S1·E1
TIMECODE: 10:14
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
xiū xī shén me ya dōu xián le shí duō tiān le
“Rest? I’ve been doing nothing for over 10 days.”
liú zhuó lì qì xiě bào gào ma
CURRENT FOCUS
留着力气 写 报告 嘛
“Save your energy for writing the report.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
dòng nǎo zi yě hěn lèi de
动脑子也很累的
“Using your brain can be tiring too.”
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Scene:
Workplace
Function:
JUSTIFYING BEHAVIOR
Tone:
PERSUASIVE
Emotion:
DEFENSIVENESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't complain about resting—writing this report is going to take all my energy.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Bureaucratic Documentation Burden
In Chinese institutional culture, writing official reports carries immense political and legal weight, often treated as harder work than field action.
INTENT TAGS:
#justification
#rationalization
#persuasion
#deflection
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2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
留着力气
SPOKEN CHUNK
save one's energy
Commonly used to tell someone to avoid unnecessary effort before a major task.
写报告
SPOKEN CHUNK
write a report
Standard workplace term for writing formal documentation or field reports.
Modal Particle「嘛」 (ma)
CHANGE OF STATE
Softens the assertion while implying that the rationale being offered should be obvious.
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2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
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