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《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E7 (18:21) HSK 5
nǐ zhè dōng tuī xī duǒ de

你这东推西躲的

“You're just passing the buck”

《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E7
TIMECODE: 18:21 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ shuō lǎo xú

我说老徐

“Listen, Xu.”

nǐ zhè dōng tuī xī duǒ de CURRENT FOCUS

你这 东推西躲 的

“You're just passing the buck”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bǎ zì jǐ piē dé tǐng gān jìng a

把自己撇得挺干净啊

“and keeping your hands clean.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: CALLING OUT EVASION
Tone: SARCASTIC
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop making cheap excuses and squirming out of your responsibility—I see right through you.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Shirking Responsibility (Shuai Guo)

In competitive or peer work relationships, calling out evasion directly challenges the other person's professional integrity and refusal to share collective burdens.

INTENT TAGS: #calling_out #criticism #holding_accountable #confrontation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
东推西躲 SPOKEN CHUNK

dodging and deflecting; shifting blame back and forth

A vivid colloquial four-character pattern used to describe someone actively avoiding obligations or hard questions.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions nominally to summarize and highlight an ongoing behavior or state with a critical nuance.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
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