MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Dream of Golden Years》 S1·E27 (41:29) HSK 7
xiàn zài jiù qù bào àn chèn tā bìng yào tā mìng

现在就去报案 趁他病 要他命

“Let's report it now. Let's kick him while he's down.”

《Dream of Golden Years》 S1·E27
TIMECODE: 41:29 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shì kē yī xióng tā zì jǐ wéi fǎ fàn zuì

是柯一雄他自己 违法犯罪

“It was Ke Yixiong who broke the law.”

xiàn zài jiù qù bào àn chèn tā bìng yào tā mìng CURRENT FOCUS

现在就去 报案 趁他病 要他命

“Let's report it now. Let's kick him while he's down.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN dàn shì jīn tiān

但是今天

“But today,”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: URGING ACTION
Tone: RUTHLESS
Emotion: DETERMINATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“He is down right now—let's strike hard and finish him off once and for all.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Ruthless Pragmatism in Conflict

The idiom reflects a harsh, zero-sum tactical mindset in Chinese competitive or conflict contexts, where showing mercy to a weakened opponent is seen as leaving room for future retaliation.

INTENT TAGS: #retaliation #urging #strategic_strike #aggression
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
报案 SPOKEN CHUNK

to report a case to the police

A common legal and daily life term used when officially notifying law enforcement of a crime.

趁他病要他命 SPOKEN CHUNK

to strike someone when they are down; kick a man while he is down

A vivid, colloquial idiom expressing a ruthless strategy of eliminating an enemy when they are at their weakest.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Dream of Golden Years》 S1·E27 (41:29) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus