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《Eight Hundred》 S1·E14 (11:10) HSK 4
zuò le shí jǐ nián shēng yì

做了十几年生意

“in Jin'gang for over ten years.”

《Eight Hundred》 S1·E14
TIMECODE: 11:10 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ zài jīn gǎng nà biān

我在金港那边

“I've been doing business”

zuò le shí jǐ nián shēng yì CURRENT FOCUS

做了十几年生意

“in Jin'gang for over ten years.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zài jīn gǎng

在金港

“In Jin'gang,”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: ESTABLISHING CREDIBILITY
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: PRIDE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I know what I am doing; I am not an amateur.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Seniority and Experience

Highlighting years of experience is a classic way in Chinese commercial circles to establish authority, reliability, and social capital.

INTENT TAGS: #self_promotion #credibility #experience #assertion
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
做生意 SPOKEN CHUNK

to do business

The standard colloquial expression for running a business or engaging in trade.

十几年 SPOKEN CHUNK

more than a decade / over ten years

Used to denote an approximate duration between ten and twenty years.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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