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《The Guilty》 S1·E7 (03:39) HSK 3
nǐ shì qué zi nǐ bù zhī dào ma néng gàn shá

你是瘸子你不知道吗 能干啥

“Don't you know you're a cripple? What else can you do?”

《The Guilty》 S1·E7
TIMECODE: 03:39 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǎo zi shì bú shì jìn shuǐ le nǐ

“Have you lost your senses?”

nǐ shì qué zi nǐ bù zhī dào ma néng gàn shá CURRENT FOCUS

你是瘸子 你不知道吗 能干啥

“Don't you know you're a cripple? What else can you do?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN dāng shí wǒ yào bù gěi chē jiān zhǔ rèn sòng liǎng tiáo yān nǐ néng jìn chuán chǎng ma

“If I hadn't sent cigarettes to the workshop foreman back then, could you have gotten into the shipyard?”

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Scene: Family & Home
Function: SCOLDING AND BELITTLING
Tone: HARSH, CONDESCENDING
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Face reality, you are useless on your own without my help.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Tough-Love Scolding vs Verbal Abuse

In close Chinese family dynamics, senior or dominant figures sometimes use brutally direct insults about physical traits or status to force someone to accept perceived practical limits.

INTENT TAGS: #belittling #reproaching #discouraging #asserting_dominance
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
能干啥 SPOKEN CHUNK

what can (you) even do

A rhetorical and dismissive question used in spoken Northern Mandarin to question someone's competence or utility.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks a rhetorical question that carries strong accusatory and patronizing force.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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