MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E1 (24:44) HSK 5
nà duō làng fèi ya dōu shì hǎo dōng xī

那多浪费呀 都是好东西

“That would be a waste. It was all good stuff.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E1
TIMECODE: 24:44 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà shì zhǔ le rè rè de fū xī gài yòng de nǐ zǎ hē le ne

那是煮了热热的 敷膝盖用的 你咋喝了呢

“that was supposed to be boiled and applied warm to your knees. Why did you drink it?”

nà duō làng fèi ya dōu shì hǎo dōng xī CURRENT FOCUS

那 多浪费 呀 都是 好东西

“That would be a waste. It was all good stuff.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ zěn me bù kàn zhe diǎn ne

你怎么不看着点呢

“Why didn’t you watch her?”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Family & Home
Function: MILD COMPLAINT
Tone: SCOLDING
Emotion: ANNOYANCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Thrift and Value for Nourishment (Xiwu)

Traditional Chinese culture strongly emphasizes frugality and deeply values tonics or medicinal goods, making careless wastage of such remedies particularly distressing.

INTENT TAGS: #complaint #distress #scolding #frugality
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
多浪费呀 SPOKEN CHUNK

what a waste

An exclamation used when valuable food, materials, or money are squandered unnecessarily.

好东西 SPOKEN CHUNK

good stuff / quality items

Colloquial term referring to nutritious ingredients, valuable medicines, or high-quality goods.

Modal Particle「呀」 (ya) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the exclamatory complaint while intensifying the speaker's emotional frustration.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E1 (24:44) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus