《Eight Hundred》 S1·E4 (19:09)
HSK 5
bú shì bào jǐng ma
不是报警吗
“Weren't you reporting something?”
《Eight Hundred》
S1·E4
TIMECODE: 19:09
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
wèn nǐ huà ne
问你话呢
“I'm asking you a question. Weren't you reporting something?”
bú shì bào jǐng ma
CURRENT FOCUS
不是报警吗
“Weren't you reporting something?”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
wèi shén me yào bào jǐng a
为什么要报警啊
“Why do you want to call the police?”
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Scene:
Crisis & Conflict
Function:
SEEKING CLARIFICATION
Tone:
INCREDULOUS AND PROBING
Emotion:
CONFUSION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Wait, I thought we agreed to call the cops! Why aren't we doing that?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Negative Rhetorical Questions for Surprise
Starting a question with '不是...吗' expresses strong surprise when reality deviates sharply from the speaker's prior assumptions.
INTENT TAGS:
#clarification
#incredulity
#questioning
#urgency
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
报警
SPOKEN CHUNK
to report an incident to the police
The standard Chinese term for dialing emergency services or notifying law enforcement.
Modal Particle「吗」 (ma)
CHANGE OF STATE
Forms a rhetorical negative question conveying surprise and seeking confirmation.
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1 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《Eight Hundred》 S1·E4 (19:09) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus