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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E38 (21:20) HSK 7
zhè jiàn shì qíng mèng yào huī cóng yī kāi shǐ jiù shè liǎo zhàng wài zhàng

这件事情 孟耀辉从一开始 就设了账外账

“Regarding this, Meng Yaohui, from the very beginning, set up off-the-book accounts.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E38
TIMECODE: 21:20 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN guān yú dào cǎi de xiāo shòu zhàng mù jì lù zī jīn wǎng lái dōu kě yǐ

关于盗采的 销售账目记录 资金往来 都可以

“or sales records and financial transactions regarding the illegal mining. Anything works.”

zhè jiàn shì qíng mèng yào huī cóng yī kāi shǐ jiù shè liǎo zhàng wài zhàng CURRENT FOCUS

这件事情 孟耀辉 从一开始 就设了 账外账

“Regarding this, Meng Yaohui, from the very beginning, set up off-the-book accounts.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN dān dú jiàn lì le yí gè cái wù shì bù hé jí tuán de cái wù

单独建立了 一个财务室 不和集团的财务

“He established a separate finance office. It's not accounted for”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: REPORTING FINDINGS
Tone: OBJECTIVE
Emotion: SERIOUSNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Corporate Financial Fraud in Legal Inquiries

Off-the-books accounting (账外账) is a common subject in Chinese corporate corruption and economic crime investigations.

INTENT TAGS: #informing #reporting #investigation #clarification
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
从一开始 SPOKEN CHUNK

from the very beginning

Common temporal phrase used to emphasize that a condition or action existed since inception.

账外账 SPOKEN CHUNK

off-the-books accounting / hidden ledger

A specific financial and legal term describing illicit duplicate accounts maintained secretly.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the completion of setting up the illicit accounts.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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