《The Inner Eye》 S1·E28 (12:20)
HSK 4
shì zhuān mén lái sòng rén qíng de ba
是专门来送人情的吧
“You've come to do us a favor, haven't you?”
《The Inner Eye》
S1·E28
TIMECODE: 12:20
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
xiàn zài de zhuàng kuàng
现在的状况
“current situation.”
shì zhuān mén lái sòng rén qíng de ba
CURRENT FOCUS
是 专门 来 送人情 的 吧
“You've come to do us a favor, haven't you?”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
wǒ dí què lián xì guò chén jūn
我的确联系过陈君
“I did get in touch with Chen Jun,”
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Scene:
Workplace
Function:
PROBING MOTIVE
Tone:
PROBING
Emotion:
SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't pretend this is coincidental—you want me to owe you one.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Renqing (Social Debt / Favors)
In Chinese culture, offering unprompted help is often seen as planting a seed of interpersonal obligation (renqing) to be cashed in later.
INTENT TAGS:
#probing
#calling_out
#social_debt
#skepticism
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2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
送人情
SPOKEN CHUNK
to do someone a favor to build social goodwill
Commonly used when someone strategically offers assistance so the recipient will feel indebted.
专门
SPOKEN CHUNK
specifically; deliberately
Used before verbs to indicate that an action was intentional rather than incidental.
Modal Particle「吧」 (ba)
CHANGE OF STATE
Softens the assertion into a rhetorical or consultative guess, inviting confirmation.
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2 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《The Inner Eye》 S1·E28 (12:20) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus