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《The Imperial Coroner》 S2·E15 (32:41) HSK 2
nǐ gěi xiè huái dìng xià de shì shén me yào

你给谢怀定下的是什么药

“what drug did you give Xie Huaiding?”

《The Imperial Coroner》 S2·E15
TIMECODE: 32:41 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN hái yǒu

还有

“And also,”

nǐ gěi xiè huái dìng xià de shì shén me yào CURRENT FOCUS

你 给 谢怀定 下的是什么药

“what drug did you give Xie Huaiding?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhè shì kǒng què dān dú gěi wǒ xià fā de zhǐ lìng

“That was a direct order issued to me by Peacock alone.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: INTERROGATING
Tone: INQUISITIVE
Emotion: SUSPICION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Euphemistic Use of 'Yao'

The word 'yao' (medicine) is widely used in Chinese to refer euphemistically to poison, narcotics, or incapacitating agents depending on context.

INTENT TAGS: #interrogation #fact_finding #investigation #confrontation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
下药 SPOKEN CHUNK

to administer medicine; to poison or drug someone

A verb-object compound that frequently means drugging someone surreptitiously or administering poison.

给...下药 SPOKEN CHUNK

to drug someone; to slip drugs into someone's food/drink

Standard syntactic construction indicating the recipient of the drugging action.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 6 GRAMMAR
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