MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E6 (26:04) HSK 1
zū hù shì shén me rén nǐ zhī dào ba

租户是什么人你知道吧

“You know who the tenant is, right?”

《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E6
TIMECODE: 26:04 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zū chū qù tǐng jiǔ de le

租出去挺久的了

“Quite a while.”

zū hù shì shén me rén nǐ zhī dào ba CURRENT FOCUS

租户 是什么人 你知道吧

“You know who the tenant is, right?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ kàn guò tā shēn fèn zhèng xìn xī

我看过她身份证信息

“I saw her ID info.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Legal & Police
Function: PROBING INFORMATION
Tone: PROBING
Emotion: SUSPICION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You ought to know who she really is, unless you failed to properly vet her.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Landlord Liability and Registration (出租屋实名制)

In China, landlords are legally expected to verify and register tenants' identity cards, making identity scrutiny routine in investigations.

INTENT TAGS: #interrogating #probing #checking_background #implying_suspicion
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
是什么人 SPOKEN CHUNK

what kind of person / who someone is

Often carries a probing connotation concerning social background, criminal history, or true identity.

你知道吧 SPOKEN CHUNK

you know, right?

A tag phrase used to probe knowledge while nudging the listener to confirm an assumption.

Modal Particle「吧」 (ba) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the interrogative into a presumptive tag question, prompting the listener to confirm the speaker's hunch.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E6 (26:04) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus