《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E32 (09:03)
HSK 6
nǐ wèi le zhè xiē miàn zi gōng chéng
你为了这些面子工程
“Because of that,”
《Live up to Your Youth》
S1·E32
TIMECODE: 09:03
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
dōu shì miàn zi gōng chéng
都是面子工程
“it's all for show.”
nǐ wèi le zhè xiē miàn zi gōng chéng
CURRENT FOCUS
你 为了 这些 面子工程
“Because of that,”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
chéng běn duō le yí bàn
成本多了一半
“your cost has increased by half.”
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Scene:
Workplace
Function:
CRITICIZING
Tone:
ACCUSATORY
Emotion:
FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You blew our budget just to show off.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Mianzi Gongcheng (Vanity Projects)
Refers to ostentatious initiatives meant purely to impress superiors or the public ('save face'), often criticized in modern Chinese professional and administrative culture for wasting public or corporate funds.
INTENT TAGS:
#blaming
#criticism
#confrontation
#disapproval
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
为了
SPOKEN CHUNK
for the sake of / in order to
Used here to introduce the improper motive behind the costly action.
面子工程
SPOKEN CHUNK
vanity project / prestige project
A widely used socio-political idiom describing superficial projects built solely to boost someone's image rather than provide practical utility.
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1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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