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《Veil of Shadows》 S1·E5 (28:26) HSK 4
nǐ xiǎng yào jìn rù shì lín zōng a ? nà hái bú shì wǒ yī jù huà de shì ?

你想要进入侍鳞宗啊? 那还不是我一句话的事?

“So you want to join the Shilin Sect? That's easy for me to arrange.”

《Veil of Shadows》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 28:26 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN jiù néng pò gé jìn rù shì lín zōng ma ?

就能破格进入侍鳞宗吗?

“and you get into the Shilin Sect?”

nǐ xiǎng yào jìn rù shì lín zōng a ? nà hái bú shì wǒ yī jù huà de shì ? CURRENT FOCUS

你 想要 进入侍鳞宗啊? 那还不是 我 一句话的事 ?

“So you want to join the Shilin Sect? That's easy for me to arrange.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yuán lái jì gōng zi zài shì lín zōng de dì wèi zhè me gāo ne

“So you have such a high status in the Shilin Sect?”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: BOASTING
Tone: BOASTFUL
Emotion: PRIDE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I hold all the cards here, and you should be flattering me if you want this favor.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Guanxi and Flaunting Influence

Claiming that an institutional barrier can be bypassed with 'just one word' reflects the traditional cultural trope of leveraging personal status and connections (guanxi).

INTENT TAGS: #boasting #flattery_seeking #showing_off #offering_help
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
一句话的事 SPOKEN CHUNK

a piece of cake; effortlessly handled with just a word

Used in informal spoken Chinese to show that a difficult task is trivial for the speaker due to authority or connections.

那还不是 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't it just; naturally it is

A rhetorical phrasing used to emphasize the obviousness or ease of a situation.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the inquiry while marking informal conversational engagement.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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《Veil of Shadows》 S1·E5 (28:26) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus