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《Pursuit of Jade》 S1·E28 (43:23) HSK 7
nǐ zhēn shì ràng wǒ men hǎo zhǎo a

你真是让我们好找啊

“You were hard to find.”

《Pursuit of Jade》 S1·E28
TIMECODE: 43:23 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zhào gōng zi

赵公子

“Mr. Zhao.”

nǐ zhēn shì ràng wǒ men hǎo zhǎo a CURRENT FOCUS

你真是 让我们好找啊

“You were hard to find.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN xiǎo rén qiàn hóu yé yī mìng

“I owe Your Lordship my life.”

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Scene: Historical & Court
Function: EXPRESSING RELIEF AND REPROACH
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: EXASPERATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“We went through so much trouble to track you down; you cannot escape now.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Emphatic 'Hao' as an Intensifier

In spoken Chinese, '好' combined with verbs or adjectives frequently functions as an emphatic marker conveying significant effort, duration, or degree.

INTENT TAGS: #confrontation #reproach #emphasis #tracking_down
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
好找 SPOKEN CHUNK

quite an effort to find / hard to find

Here '好' acts as an intensifier meaning 'really' or 'quite', often used in emphatic complaints about effort.

让...好找 SPOKEN CHUNK

to make someone search high and low

Commonly said upon finally locating someone who was missing or difficult to reach.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Adds emotional intensity and emphasis to the speaker's sigh of exasperation or confrontation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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