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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E9 (05:50) HSK 7
bú shì nǐ shuō de zhǐ kàn lǎo bǎn gè rén xǐ hào

不是你说的 只看老板个人喜好

“Didn't you say it's about the boss's choice”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E9
TIMECODE: 05:50 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN tā yè jì yì zhí tǐng hǎo de

她业绩一直挺好的

“Her performance has always been good.”

bú shì nǐ shuō de zhǐ kàn lǎo bǎn gè rén xǐ hào CURRENT FOCUS

不是你说的 只看 老板 个人喜好

“Didn't you say it's about the boss's choice”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bù kàn yè jì bù kàn píng fēn ma wǒ jiù nà me yī shuō

“instead of performance or ratings? I was just speculating.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: CALLING OUT INCONSISTENCY
Tone: CHALLENGING
Emotion: SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You were the one who told me this in the first place, so why are you backtracking now?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Calling Out Double Standards

Using rhetorical negation ('Is it not that...') directly holds peer colleagues accountable when workplace gossip turns contradictory.

INTENT TAGS: #challenging #confronting #pointing_out_contradiction #accountability
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
不是你说的 SPOKEN CHUNK

Weren't you the one who said...?

A sharp rhetorical question used to hold someone accountable to their previous statements.

个人喜好 SPOKEN CHUNK

personal preference / personal taste

Often used in professional contexts to contrast subjective managerial favoritism with objective merit.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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