MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《A Splendid Match》 S1·E4 (06:51) HSK 4
nín zěn me yě bù liú yī liú a

您怎么也不留一留啊

“Why didn't you try to stop Master?”

《A Splendid Match》 S1·E4
TIMECODE: 06:51 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ zhuā jǐn quàn tā

你抓紧劝她

“Talk some sense into her!”

nín zěn me yě bù liú yī liú a CURRENT FOCUS

您 怎么 也不留一留 啊

“Why didn't you try to stop Master?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bù shuō tā le

不说他了

“Enough about him.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Daily Life
Function: GENTLE REPROACH
Tone: QUESTIONING
Emotion: CONFUSION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You really should have tried harder to keep them here.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Ritual Hospitable Retention (留客)

In Chinese etiquette, hosts are expected to repeatedly insist that departing guests stay longer, even if departure is inevitable; failing to urge them to stay can be seen as cold or dismissive.

INTENT TAGS: #reproaching #questioning #urging #etiquette
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
留一留 SPOKEN CHUNK

to ask someone to stay a while longer

A common reduplicated verb structure used to express conventional hospitality when guests prepare to leave.

怎么也不 SPOKEN CHUNK

why not even; how come (one) didn't even

Used to express surprise or mild reproach when an expected basic action was omitted.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the rhetorical question and expresses lingering perplexity or regret.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

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

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《A Splendid Match》 S1·E4 (06:51) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus