MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Inner Eye》 S1·E2 (14:31) HSK 7
shī qù lǐ zhì de nán xìng

失去理智的男性

“when that man lost all control.”

《The Inner Eye》 S1·E2
TIMECODE: 14:31 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà shì yí gè

那是一个

“when that man”

shī qù lǐ zhì de nán xìng CURRENT FOCUS

失去理智 的男性

“when that man lost all control.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ shuō qīng chǔ le ma

我说清楚了吗

“Do I make myself clear?”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: DEFINING CHARACTER
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: TENSION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Do not treat him as a rational person; he is completely unhinged.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Emotional Restraint (克制)

In Chinese culture, losing self-control or rationality (失去理智) is viewed as a severe flaw that can lead to dangerous social or personal breakdown.

INTENT TAGS: #warning #condemning #clarification
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
失去理智 SPOKEN CHUNK

to lose one's mind or reason; to become irrational

A common formal four-character idiom used to describe someone acting erratically out of extreme anger or passion.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Inner Eye》 S1·E2 (14:31) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus