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《The First Jasmine》 S1·E35 (33:19) HSK 7
nǎ néng bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái jiù bǎ rén gěi cí le ya

哪能不分青红皂白 就把人给辞了呀

“I can't just dismiss him without knowing the facts.”

《The First Jasmine》 S1·E35
TIMECODE: 33:19 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà zěn me xíng

那怎么行

“I can't do that.”

nǎ néng bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái jiù bǎ rén gěi cí le ya CURRENT FOCUS

哪能 不分青红皂白 就把人给辞了呀

“I can't just dismiss him without knowing the facts.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ hái bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái gēn zōng bié rén ne

你还不分青红皂白跟踪别人呢

“Yet you are following him without knowing the facts.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: PROTESTING UNFAIRNESS
Tone: REPROACHFUL
Emotion: INDIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You cannot just fire people on a whim without even checking the facts!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Sense of Fairness in Workplace Relations

Dismissing workers rashly without procedural fairness is viewed negatively in Chinese culture, prompting moral appeals to reason (讲理).

INTENT TAGS: #protesting #disapproval #fairness #appealing
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
不分青红皂白 SPOKEN CHUNK

indiscriminately; without distinguishing right from wrong

A very common four-character idiom used to criticize someone acting blindly without checking the facts.

把人给辞了 SPOKEN CHUNK

fire someone; let someone go

Colloquial structure using '把' and particle '给' to emphasize completing the action of dismissing an employee.

Modal Particle「呀」 (ya) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the rhetorical question while conveying exasperation and disbelief.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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