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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20 (05:59) HSK 7
hǎo bù róng yì sòng zǒu yí gè dǔ guǐ yòu lái gè yán zhòng xīn zàng bìng de

好不容易送走一个赌鬼 又来个严重心脏病的

“I just divorced a gambler. Now here comes one with heart disease.”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20
TIMECODE: 05:59 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ shuō wǒ zhè shì shén me mìng a

“What kind of fate is this for me?”

hǎo bù róng yì sòng zǒu yí gè dǔ guǐ yòu lái gè yán zhòng xīn zàng bìng de CURRENT FOCUS

好不容易 送走 一个 赌鬼 又来个 严重心脏病的

“I just divorced a gambler. Now here comes one with heart disease.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ shuō wǒ zhè pán yào bù yào jiē

你说我这盘要不要接

“Should I accept him or not?”

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Scene: Daily Life
Function: VENTING FRUSTRATION
Tone: RESIGNED
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Just when I thought my ordeal was over, a worse disaster arrived—why am I always stuck cleaning up messes?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Jie Pan (Taking Over a Troubled Asset)

Originally a financial term meaning 'picking up dumping stocks,' 接盘 is widely used in daily slang to describe taking over a burdensome person, mess, or unwanted responsibility.

INTENT TAGS: #venting #lamenting #resignation #seeking_validation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

3 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
好不容易 SPOKEN CHUNK

with great difficulty / after much hardship

Standard colloquial chunk introducing a hard-won relief that is often ruined by subsequent events.

送走 SPOKEN CHUNK

to send off / to get rid of (a problem person)

Used here idiomatically to mean successfully seeing off or freeing oneself from a difficult burden.

赌鬼 SPOKEN CHUNK

gambling addict / degenerate gambler

A derogatory noun using 鬼 (ghost/devil) to denote someone obsessively addicted to a vice.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Nominalizes the description of the new person with heart disease.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

4 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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