MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E17 (36:35) HSK 6
zán liǎ huí tóu zài shuō

咱俩回头再说

“the medical treatment later.”

《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E17
TIMECODE: 36:35 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà ge kàn bìng de shì

那个看病的事

“We'll talk about”

zán liǎ huí tóu zài shuō CURRENT FOCUS

咱俩 回头再说

“the medical treatment later.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhōng ma

中吗

“Okay?”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Daily Life
Function: POSTPONING
Tone: DISMISSIVE
Emotion: EVASIVENESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Not here, not now—let's drop this topic for the moment.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Evasive Postponement (回头再说)

'回头再说' is a classic conversational stalling tactic in Chinese social interaction used to defer an awkward or inappropriate topic without causing open offense.

INTENT TAGS: #postponing #evasion #deflection #boundary_setting
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
回头再说 SPOKEN CHUNK

talk about it later; deal with it another time

A standard spoken phrase used to postpone a matter or politely evade an immediate conversation.

咱俩 SPOKEN CHUNK

the two of us

An intimate, colloquial Northern pronoun referring specifically to the speaker and the listener.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E17 (36:35) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus