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《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E8 (21:50) HSK 7
méi xiǎng dào zhè kǒu xiōng jǐng zhēn shì hài rén nǎ

没想到这口凶井真是害人哪

“I didn't expect this cursed well would truly bring disaster.”

《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E8
TIMECODE: 21:50 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN suǒ yǐ jiù jiāng cǐ shì yǎn gài xià lái

所以就将此事掩盖下来

“so I covered it up.”

méi xiǎng dào zhè kǒu xiōng jǐng zhēn shì hài rén nǎ CURRENT FOCUS

没想到 这口凶井 真是害人 哪

“I didn't expect this cursed well would truly bring disaster.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN hái wàng liǎng wèi dà rén kàn zài zhōng yǒng hóu de fèn shàng dà zhōu yǒu lǜ

还望两位大人 看在忠勇侯的份上 大周有律

“Please… for the sake of the Marquis of Zhongyong... Zhou's law clearly states that”

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Scene: Historical & Court
Function: DEFLECTING BLAME
Tone: DEFENSIVE
Emotion: FEAR
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't blame me, the well itself is cursed and caused all this trouble!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Superstitious Scapegoating

In traditional narratives, attributing fatal occurrences to malevolent or ominous objects (xiongwu) is a common tactic to evade direct moral or legal culpability.

INTENT TAGS: #deflection #feigning_ignorance #scapegoating #pleading
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
没想到 SPOKEN CHUNK

unexpectedly; who would have thought

Commonly used in both modern and historical speech to express surprise or to feign ignorance.

害人 SPOKEN CHUNK

to harm people; to bring calamity upon others

Used to denote actions or superstitious entities that cause misfortune or death.

Modal Particle「哪」 (na) CHANGE OF STATE

Phonetic variant of 'a' following an 'n' sound, enhancing the dramatic exclamatory and lamenting tone.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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