MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20 (06:12) HSK 3
yòu yǒu diǎn yú xīn bù rěn

又有点于心不忍

“I feel a bit sorry for him.”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20
TIMECODE: 06:12 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yào shì jiē le ma wǒ yòu pà wǒ zì jǐ diào kēng lǐ yào shì bù jiē ma

要是接了嘛 我又怕我自己掉坑里 要是不接嘛

“If I accept him, I'm afraid I'll be trapped. If I don't,”

yòu yǒu diǎn yú xīn bù rěn CURRENT FOCUS

又有 点 于心不忍

“I feel a bit sorry for him.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN kěn dìng bù néng jiē ya tā duō dà le wǔ shí liù shí

肯定不能接呀 他多大了 五十 六十

“You definitely shouldn't. How old is he? Fifty? Sixty?”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Workplace
Function: EXPRESSING DILEMMA
Tone: HESITANT
Emotion: CONFLICT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I know it's a terrible idea to take this on, but I feel too guilty walking away.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Renqing vs Practicality (人情与利益)

Chinese social and business decisions often struggle with the balance between rational self-protection and emotional sympathy (于心不忍), where rejecting someone outright feels callous.

INTENT TAGS: #hesitation #dilemma #sympathy #deliberation
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
于心不忍 SPOKEN CHUNK

cannot bear it in one's heart / feel guilty or pitiful

A common idiomatic four-character expression used when someone feels a twinge of conscience or sympathy.

又有点 SPOKEN CHUNK

also a little bit...

Used to introduce a conflicting emotion or nuance in spoken deliberation.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E20 (06:12) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus