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《The Knockout》 S1·E25 (22:10) HSK 3
hǎo rén jiù bù yīng gāi mìng duǎn

好人就不应该命短

“A good person shouldn't live short.”

《The Knockout》 S1·E25
TIMECODE: 22:10 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wèi shén me yào shā lǐ hóng wěi ān jǐng guān nǐ shì gè hǎo rén

为什么要杀李宏伟 安警官 你是个好人

“Why do you want to kill Li Hongwei? Officer An, you're a good man.”

hǎo rén jiù bù yīng gāi mìng duǎn CURRENT FOCUS

好人就不应该命短

“A good person shouldn't live short.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ chū qù

你出去

“You can go out.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: ASSERTING BELIEF
Tone: EARNEST
Emotion: CONVICTION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You deserve to live, which is why I spared you.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Heavenly Reward for Goodness (善有善报)

Chinese moral sentiment holds deep sorrow when moral people suffer hardship or die young, epitomized by the idiom '好人不长命' (good people seldom live long).

INTENT TAGS: #moral_assertion #rationalization #expressing_respect #conviction
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

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命短 SPOKEN CHUNK

short-lived; die young

Colloquial term describing premature death, often used in emotional or fatalistic contexts.

就应该 SPOKEN CHUNK

simply ought to; naturally should

Used with emphatic '就' to express strong belief in what is naturally right or justified.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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