《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20 (32:56)
HSK 5
chéng mén shī huǒ yāng jí chí yú
城门失火 殃及池鱼
“When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”
《The Glamorous Night》
S1·E20
TIMECODE: 32:56
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
zhēn cǎn
真惨
“That's brutal.”
chéng mén shī huǒ yāng jí chí yú
CURRENT FOCUS
城门失火 殃及池鱼
“When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
xíng le dōu shǎo shuō liǎng jù ba
行了 都少说两句吧
“Enough. Just pipe down.”
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Scene:
Workplace
Function:
COMMENTING ON SITUATION
Tone:
PHILOSOPHICAL
Emotion:
RESIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“We're just innocent casualties getting dragged into someone else's mess.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Chengyu in Daily Commentary
Using traditional idioms to comment on office politics allows Chinese speakers to deliver poignant critiques indirectly without naming specific perpetrators.
INTENT TAGS:
#analogy
#lamentation
#shared_suffering
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
城门失火 殃及池鱼
SPOKEN CHUNK
innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire
A classic four-character parallel idiom used when a crisis at the top harms unrelated lower-level individuals.
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2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
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