《The Dream Maker》 S1·E30 (17:46)
HSK 2
zhēn néng gěi zì jǐ liǎn shàng tiē jīn
真能给自己脸上贴金
“So good at glorifying himself.”
《The Dream Maker》
S1·E30
TIMECODE: 17:46
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
tā jiù shì yí gè zhōng xué de jiāo shū jiàng
“He was just a high school teacher.”
zhēn néng gěi zì jǐ liǎn shàng tiē jīn
CURRENT FOCUS
真能给 自己 脸上贴金
“So good at glorifying himself.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
sān shí wǔ nián qián de jiǔ yuè èr hào
三十五年前的九月二号
“35 years ago, on September 2,”
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Scene:
Daily Life
Function:
MOCKING PRETENSION
Tone:
SARCASTIC
Emotion:
SCORN
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Who does he think he is? He is vastly exaggerating his own importance.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Self-Effacement versus Boasting
Boasting directly violates Chinese cultural norms of modesty, prompting harsh idioms like 'putting gold on one's own face' to socially penalize self-flattery.
INTENT TAGS:
#mockery
#deflating_ego
#sarcasm
#ridicule
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
往脸上贴金
SPOKEN CHUNK
to flatter oneself; to give oneself undue credit
A widely used idiom to mock someone who boasts or exaggerates their merits.
真能
SPOKEN CHUNK
really capable of (used sarcastically)
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to express exasperated sarcasm about someone's audacity.
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2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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