《The Silent Rift》 S1·E5 (28:09)
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nǐ shuō wǒ nà diǎn sǐ gōng zī
你说我那点死工资
“But Guangcai, you know my salary is pretty modest.”
《The Silent Rift》
S1·E5
TIMECODE: 28:09
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
dàn guǎng cái
但广才
“But Guangcai, you know my salary is pretty modest.”
nǐ shuō wǒ nà diǎn sǐ gōng zī
CURRENT FOCUS
你说 我 那点死工资
“But Guangcai, you know my salary is pretty modest.”
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Scene:
Daily Life
Function:
HEDGING INABILITY
Tone:
DEFENSIVE
Emotion:
HELPLESSNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You know I earn almost nothing; do not expect me to pitch in.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Kuqiong (Crying Poverty)
Strategically highlighting one's low, fixed earnings is a standard social defense mechanism in China to forestall loans or financial obligations.
INTENT TAGS:
#refusal
#hedging
#self_deprecation
#justification
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2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
死工资
SPOKEN CHUNK
meager fixed wage; dead-end fixed salary
Refers colloquially to a static, unvarying salary with zero upside or bonus, often used self-deprecatingly.
你说
SPOKEN CHUNK
you tell me; look at it yourself
A rhetorical conversational starter appealing to common sense or shared reality.
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2 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《The Silent Rift》 S1·E5 (28:09) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus