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《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E3 (40:55) HSK 3
nǐ jiù shì gè shén me yàng de rén zán xīn lǐ hěn qīng chǔ gēn wǒ bà yī yàng

你舅是个什么样的人 咱心里很清楚 跟我爸一样

“We know what kind of person your uncle was. Like my dad,”

《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E3
TIMECODE: 40:55 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN dàn nǐ jiù xiàn zài shì xī dú zhè bú shì gè xiǎo shì

“But your uncle used drugs. It's not a small matter.”

nǐ jiù shì gè shén me yàng de rén zán xīn lǐ hěn qīng chǔ gēn wǒ bà yī yàng CURRENT FOCUS

你舅是个 什么样的人 咱 心里 很清楚 跟 我爸 一样

“We know what kind of person your uncle was. Like my dad,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN jiù shì gè pǔ pǔ tōng tōng de gōng rén

就是个普普通通的工人

“he was just an ordinary worker.”

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Scene: Family & Home
Function: APPEALING TO SHARED KNOWLEDGE
Tone: PLEADING
Emotion: DEFENSIVENESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You know he's not a bad person at heart, so don't treat him like a hopeless monster.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Family Solidarity and Character Defense

In Chinese familial dynamics, relatives often defend an errant member by emphasizing their fundamentally honest core (本性不坏) despite legal or moral infractions.

INTENT TAGS: #defense #rationalization #empathy #shared_memory
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
心里很清楚 SPOKEN CHUNK

to know full well in one's heart

Commonly used to remind someone of an undeniable shared truth without having to spell out every detail.

是个什么样的人 SPOKEN CHUNK

what kind of person someone is

A frequent conversational chunk used to evaluate someone's fundamental moral character.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

5 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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