MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Lead》 S1·E29 (32:03) HSK 6
nà hái bù néng shì xiàn zài jiù shì shěng qín de rén yào bì xián ne ma

那还不能是现在就是省秦的人 要避嫌呢嘛

“But not someone currently with them. It's to avoid a conflict.”

《The Lead》 S1·E29
TIMECODE: 32:03 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN hái dé jiē shòu guò shěng qín xì tǒng xùn liàn

还得接受过省秦系统训练

“trained by the provincial troupe.”

nà hái bù néng shì xiàn zài jiù shì shěng qín de rén yào bì xián ne ma CURRENT FOCUS

那 还 不能 是现在 就是 省秦的人 要 避嫌 呢 嘛

“But not someone currently with them. It's to avoid a conflict.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhè rén

这人

“Where can I”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Workplace
Function: JUSTIFYING CONSTRAINTS
Tone: PRAGMATIC
Emotion: CALMNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't be naive—if we pick an insider, everyone will accuse us of favoritism.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Bi Xian (Avoiding Suspicion of Nepotism)

In state-run cultural and public institutions, great effort is made to publicly demonstrate neutrality to preempt accusations of back-channel favoritism or corruption.

INTENT TAGS: #caution #compliance #justification #pragmatism
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 2 PARTICLES
避嫌 SPOKEN CHUNK

to avoid suspicion / to avoid appearance of favoritism

Essential formal and workplace idiom used when stepping back from decisions where a conflict of interest might look suspicious.

还不能是 SPOKEN CHUNK

cannot be / still ruled out as

Used to add an exclusionary constraint or restriction during planning discussions.

Modal Particle「呢」 (ne) CHANGE OF STATE

Emphasizes the ongoing relevance of the policy condition.

Modal Particle「嘛」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the statement as obvious common sense that the listener ought to understand.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

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

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Lead》 S1·E29 (32:03) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus