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《Born with Luck》 S1·E12 (34:35) HSK 6
yǒu jīn qián wǎng lái yě shì zhèng cháng de

有金钱往来也是正常的

“Their financial transactions are normal.”

《Born with Luck》 S1·E12
TIMECODE: 34:35 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yí gè chāi qiān

一个拆迁

“one handles demolition.”

yǒu jīn qián wǎng lái yě shì zhèng cháng de CURRENT FOCUS

有金钱往来 也是 正常的

“Their financial transactions are normal.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN dàn shì zhè ge shí jiān diǎn

但是这个时间点

“But wasn't the timing”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: CONCEDING A POINT
Tone: OBJECTIVE
Emotion: SUSPICION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Money transfers might look normal on the surface, but the context makes this suspicious.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Rhetorical Concession (Xianli Houbing)

Chinese speakers often soften an investigative deduction by first acknowledging what is normally plausible before highlighting the anomaly.

INTENT TAGS: #conceding #analyzing #hedging #pivoting
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
金钱往来 SPOKEN CHUNK

financial dealings; monetary transactions

A formal and spoken collocation used to refer to money transfers or business dealings between parties.

也是正常的 SPOKEN CHUNK

it is also understandable/normal

A common rhetorical framing used to concede a premise before offering a counterargument with 'but'.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Used at the end of the clause to assert a factual, predictable evaluation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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