MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Heir》 S1·E19 (36:49) HSK 7
nǐ diē de xìng zi nǐ hái bù zhī dào ma

你爹的性子你还不知道吗

“Don't you know your father's temper?”

《The Heir》 S1·E19
TIMECODE: 36:49 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN bù xíng wǒ dé jiāng cǐ shì gào zhī wǒ diē ràng tā zhǔ chí gōng dào huí lái

不行 我得将此事告知我爹 让他主持公道 回来

“No, I have to tell my father about this and let him uphold justice. Come back!”

nǐ diē de xìng zi nǐ hái bù zhī dào ma CURRENT FOCUS

你爹的 性子 你还不知道吗

“Don't you know your father's temper?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ wèi hé ràng nǐ qù sū zhōu ér bú shì bié rén cǐ shì bù yí shēng zhāng

我为何让你去苏州 而不是别人 此事不宜声张

“Why do you think I asked you to go to Suzhou and not someone else? This matter shouldn't be made public.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Family & Home
Function: DISSUADING
Tone: ADMONISHING
Emotion: IMPATIENCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Telling your father will blow this out of proportion and ruin everything.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Patriarchal Temperament

In traditional households, household heads often react severely to scandal, leading other family members to conceal issues to preserve peace.

INTENT TAGS: #dissuasion #rhetorical_question #cautioning #secrecy
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
性子 SPOKEN CHUNK

temperament; disposition

Used colloquially to describe someone's natural personality or habitual temper.

你还不知道吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

don't you know by now?

A common rhetorical framing used to emphasize that the listener should know better.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Transforms the statement into a rhetorical question that reinforces an obvious truth.

🏮

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
《The Heir》 S1·E19 (36:49) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus