MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Knockout》 S1·E18 (27:36) HSK 1
xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn nǎ xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn

相见恨晚哪 相见恨晚 相见恨晚

“We should have met earlier. We should have met earlier.”

《The Knockout》 S1·E18
TIMECODE: 27:36 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN lái lái lái lái hē chá hē chá

来来来 来喝茶 喝茶

“Come, have some tea.”

xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn nǎ xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn CURRENT FOCUS

相见恨晚 哪 相见恨晚 相见恨晚

“We should have met earlier. We should have met earlier.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN mǎng cūn zhè ge gōng chéng xiàng mù a

莽村这个工程项目啊

“Mr Chairman,”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Business & Trade
Function: FLATTERING
Tone: EFFUSIVE AND FLATTERING
Emotion: ENTHUSIASM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I want to butter you up so that you'll cooperate on this lucrative project.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Social Flattery in Networking (Taocishi)

Over-the-top expressions of instant friendship over tea or banquets are common social grease in Chinese business negotiations to establish quick intimacy before making demands.

INTENT TAGS: #flattery #rapport_building #ingratiation #persuasion
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
相见恨晚 SPOKEN CHUNK

regretting not having met sooner

A common four-character idiom frequently used socially or in business networking to express instant connection or exaggerated flattery.

Modal Particle「哪」 (na) CHANGE OF STATE

Amplifies the dramatic exclamatory tone of regret and enthusiasm.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Knockout》 S1·E18 (27:36) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus