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《Light to the Night》 S1·E3 (13:24) HSK 7
( yù xī xiāng yān ) kěn dìng shì yǒu rén zài gǎo guǐ

(玉溪香烟) 肯定是有人在搞鬼

“YUXI CIGARETTE Someone must be behind all of this.”

《Light to the Night》 S1·E3
TIMECODE: 13:24 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN lǎo zi cóng lái bù xiāng xìn zhè yuán lóng lǐ yǒu guǐ

“I never believed that Yuanlongli was haunted.”

( yù xī xiāng yān ) kěn dìng shì yǒu rén zài gǎo guǐ CURRENT FOCUS

(玉溪香烟) 肯定是 有人 在 搞鬼

“YUXI CIGARETTE Someone must be behind all of this.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN 407

407

“407.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: MAKING DEDUCTION
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: SUSPICION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Demystifying Supernatural Metaphors (Gui)

While '鬼' literally means ghost, idioms like '搞鬼' (playing the ghost) are pragmatic tools in modern Chinese to attribute strange anomalies to deceitful human actors rather than spirits.

INTENT TAGS: #deduction #suspicion #assertiveness #investigation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
搞鬼 SPOKEN CHUNK

play underhanded tricks; pull strings behind the scenes

Very frequently used when suspecting deliberate human mischief, fraud, or hidden sabotage.

肯定是 SPOKEN CHUNK

definitely is; without a doubt

Used to express strong personal conviction or assertive deductions.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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