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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E9 (32:19) HSK 4
tā men gōng sī shì bú shì jǐ gè tóng shì yì qǐ lái chū chāi de

他们公司是不是 几个同事一起来出差的

“Did he come with several colleagues?”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E9
TIMECODE: 32:19 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN qǐng wèn hái yǒu shén me kě yǐ bāng dào nín de ma

“Ma'am, is there anything else I can help you with?”

tā men gōng sī shì bú shì jǐ gè tóng shì yì qǐ lái chū chāi de CURRENT FOCUS

他们公司 是不是 几个 同事 一起来出差 的

“Did he come with several colleagues?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN shí zài bù fāng biàn duì bù qǐ

“I can't tell you. I'm sorry.”

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Scene: Travel & Transit
Function: PRYING INQUIRY
Tone: INQUISITIVE
Emotion: CURIOSITY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I need to know who is staying here with them.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Information Boundaries in Service Encounters

Front-desk personnel in modern hospitality settings are strictly bound by customer privacy rules, making direct inquiries about other guests sensitive.

INTENT TAGS: #inquiry #probing #verification
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
出差 SPOKEN CHUNK

to go on a business trip

A common professional verb phrase used when traveling for work-related duties.

是不是 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't it / is it true that

Used as an affirmative-negative tag question to confirm a suspicion or assumption.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions as part of the 'shi...de' construction to emphasize the manner, purpose, or circumstance of an event.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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