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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20 (28:11) HSK 4
bú yào zài zhè ér làng fèi shí jiān nǐ làng fèi de shì

不要在这儿浪费时间 你浪费的是

“Stop wasting time here. You're wasting everyone's time in this room.”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20
TIMECODE: 28:11 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ yào shì bú huì zuò nǐ jiù ràng bié rén zuò hǎo bù hǎo

“If you can't do it, let someone else handle it.”

bú yào zài zhè ér làng fèi shí jiān nǐ làng fèi de shì CURRENT FOCUS

不要在这儿 浪费时间 你浪费的是

“Stop wasting time here. You're wasting everyone's time in this room.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zài zuò měi yí gè rén de shí jiān

在座每一个人的时间

“You're wasting everyone's time in this room.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: CRITICIZING
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You're incompetent and selfishly dragging everyone down; step aside immediately.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Collective Accountability and Public Shaming

In Chinese work culture, framing an individual's poor performance as an infringement on the entire group's collective effort ('大家的利益') is a powerful method of exerting social pressure and asserting leadership.

INTENT TAGS: #rebuking #shaming #demanding_efficiency #collective_pressure
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
浪费时间 SPOKEN CHUNK

to waste time

Extremely common collocation used to reprimand someone for dragging out tasks or delaying others.

在座每一个人 SPOKEN CHUNK

every single person present

A rhetorical device used in meetings or groups to invoke collective interest and intensify social pressure.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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