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《A Splendid Match》 S1·E23 (18:41) HSK 1
hái shuō shén me yī jiàn shuāng diāo

还说什么一箭双雕

“A sage ruler attracts good ministers Talking about killing two birds with one stone.”

《A Splendid Match》 S1·E23
TIMECODE: 18:41 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zhì dà cái shū

志大才疏

“no ability.”

hái shuō shén me yī jiàn shuāng diāo CURRENT FOCUS

还说什么 一箭双雕

“A sage ruler attracts good ministers Talking about killing two birds with one stone.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yī shǒu dǎ diào fàn chuān yī shǒu dǎ jī jiǔ héng duō hǎo de jú ya

一手打掉范川 一手打击九衡 多好的局呀

“Taking down Fan Chuan on one hand, and striking Jiuheng on the other. What a perfect setup.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: MOCKING
Tone: SARCASTIC
Emotion: CONTEMPT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You bragged about a brilliant masterstroke, but it turned out to be an utter joke.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Critique of Overreaching Ambition (志大才疏)

In Chinese strategic culture, boasting of brilliant dual-purpose schemes (一箭双雕) without the competence to execute them invites deep derision.

INTENT TAGS: #mockery #scorn #ridicule #debunking
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
还说什么 SPOKEN CHUNK

and even had the nerve to claim / to go as far as saying

Use this spoken phrase to bring up someone's past boast or claim with heavy skepticism or ridicule.

一箭双雕 SPOKEN CHUNK

kill two birds with one stone

A common idiom describing an action that achieves two strategic objectives simultaneously.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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