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《COURT!》 S1·E21 (29:25) HSK 5
shī tuō bǎ cā shàng jǐ nián bù yě dé biàn zàng ma

湿拖把擦上几年不也得变脏吗

“they'll get dirty after a few years of wet mopping anyway.”

《COURT!》 S1·E21
TIMECODE: 29:25 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà zài bái

那再白

“Even if they're white now,”

shī tuō bǎ cā shàng jǐ nián bù yě dé biàn zàng ma CURRENT FOCUS

湿拖把擦上几年 不也 得 变脏 吗

“they'll get dirty after a few years of wet mopping anyway.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN dào shí hòu huī bù lā jī de

到时候灰不拉叽的

“they'll get dirty after a few years of wet mopping anyway.”

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Scene: Daily Life
Function: COUNTERING AN ARGUMENT
Tone: PRAGMATIC
Emotion: SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't be so naive—nothing stays clean forever with constant mopping.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Pragmatic Realism

Everyday Chinese dialogue often employs rhetorical questions about daily chores to assert practical, common-sense thinking over idealistic expectations.

INTENT TAGS: #refutation #rhetorical_question #reality_check #persuasion
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
不也得 SPOKEN CHUNK

won't it still inevitably have to...

A rhetorical structure used to emphasize that a certain consequence is unavoidable.

变脏 SPOKEN CHUNK

to become dirty

A simple resultative verb compound expressing a change of state.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Turns the sentence into a rhetorical question to demand agreement rather than seek new information.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 5 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

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