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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E1 (14:44) HSK 5
shì xiàn lǐ jí tǐ jué dìng de nǐ bù néng shuō huà bù suàn huà ba

是县里集体决定的 你不能说话不算话吧

“It was a collective decision by the county. You can't go back on your word.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E1
TIMECODE: 14:44 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN sān gè yuè qián jiù dā yìng yào gěi de

三个月前 就答应要给的

“was promised 3 months ago.”

shì xiàn lǐ jí tǐ jué dìng de nǐ bù néng shuō huà bù suàn huà ba CURRENT FOCUS

是 县里集体决定的 你 不能说 话 不算 话 吧

“It was a collective decision by the county. You can't go back on your word.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ yào shì zhè me gēn wǒ shuō huà wǒ jiù yào gēn nǐ bāi chě bāi chě le a

“If you're going to talk to me like that, we’ll have to sort this out properly.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: CHALLENGING AUTHORITY
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: INDIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You don't have the right to unilaterally cancel what higher officials already approved, so keep your promise.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Invoking Collective Authority

In Chinese administrative culture, citing 'collective decisions' (集体决定) serves as a potent check against personal whims or arbitrary reversals by individual leaders.

INTENT TAGS: #confrontation #holding_accountable #asserting_rights #challenging
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
集体决定 SPOKEN CHUNK

collective decision

Used in Chinese bureaucratic contexts to denote legitimate decisions made by a governing committee rather than an individual.

说话不算话 SPOKEN CHUNK

to break one's word / to be untrustworthy

A strong common idiom used to accuse someone of failing to honor an explicit verbal commitment.

Modal Particle「吧」 (ba) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens an accusatory demand into a rhetorical tag, nudging the listener to concede the point.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
GRAMMAR BLUEPRINTS:
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