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《Road to Success》 S1·E10 (24:29) HSK 7
bú shì dǒng shì huì hái yǒu shí fēn zhōng kāi shǐ nǐ kě bù néng chí dào a

不是董事会还有十分钟开始 你可不能迟到啊

“Well, the board meeting starts in 10 minutes. You can't be late.”

《Road to Success》 S1·E10
TIMECODE: 24:29 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wèi nǐ rén zài nǎ a

“Hello? Where are you?”

bú shì dǒng shì huì hái yǒu shí fēn zhōng kāi shǐ nǐ kě bù néng chí dào a CURRENT FOCUS

不是 董事会 还有 十分 钟开始 你 可不能 迟到 啊

“Well, the board meeting starts in 10 minutes. You can't be late.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ zhī dào duì le hái yǒu nǐ què dìng ràng jié sēn shǒu fā

我知道 对了还有 你确定让杰森首发

“I know. Oh, one more thing. Are you sure you want to start Jason?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: URGING
Tone: IMPATIENT
Emotion: ANXIETY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Corporate Punctuality and Face

Tardiness to high-level corporate events like a board meeting damages professional standing and causes collective loss of face.

INTENT TAGS: #warning #urging #time_pressure #reminder
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
还有十分钟 SPOKEN CHUNK

there are still ten minutes left

Use to emphasize a pressing time limit before an event begins.

可不能 SPOKEN CHUNK

really must not / cannot afford to

Adds emphatic urgency or a strong reminder against doing something inadvisable.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the urgent warning while reinforcing emotional concern and insistence.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

5 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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《Road to Success》 S1·E10 (24:29) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus