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《Love Between Lines》 S1·E16 (36:14) HSK 5
hái qǐng nǐ bú yào bǎ wǒ dàng zuò tóng shì cāo gē de gōng jù

还请你不要把我当作 同室操戈的工具

“please don't use me as a tool in your family infighting.”

《Love Between Lines》 S1·E16
TIMECODE: 36:14 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN suǒ yǐ péi zǒng

所以 裴总

“So, Mr. Pei,”

hái qǐng nǐ bú yào bǎ wǒ dàng zuò tóng shì cāo gē de gōng jù CURRENT FOCUS

还请 你不要 把 我 当作 同室操戈 的工具

“please don't use me as a tool in your family infighting.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ yǐ qián dǎo shì méi fā xiàn

“I never realized before”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: SETTING BOUNDARIES
Tone: FIRM AND GUARDED
Emotion: ASSERTIVENESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Keep me out of your internal political warfare; I refuse to be your scapegoat.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Avoiding Factional Strife (明哲保身)

In Chinese organizational culture, professionals often actively resist being enlisted into internal factional wars to avoid becoming collateral damage.

INTENT TAGS: #boundary_setting #warning #self_protection #assertiveness
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
同室操戈 SPOKEN CHUNK

internal feud; infighting among colleagues or family

A classic Chengyu used in formal or serious contexts to describe conflict between members of the same camp.

当作...的工具 SPOKEN CHUNK

treat as a tool for...

Useful pattern for expressing feeling objectified or exploited for someone else's agenda.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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