《The Lead》 S1·E20 (07:21)
HSK 4
kě shì xiàn zài wǒ bù néng bǎo hù hǎo nǐ le
可是现在我不能保护好你了
“But I can't protect you anymore.”
《The Lead》
S1·E20
TIMECODE: 07:21
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
kě shì xiàn zài wǒ bù néng bǎo hù hǎo nǐ le
CURRENT FOCUS
可是 现在我 不能 保护好你 了
“But I can't protect you anymore.”
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Scene:
Social & Dating
Function:
EXPRESSING REGRET
Tone:
TENDER
Emotion:
SADNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I have failed in my promise, and it breaks my heart that I have to leave you on your own.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Entrustment Burden (Baituo)
Accepting someone's entrustment ('拜托') creates a heavy moral obligation in Chinese relationships; failing to fulfill that protection causes deep emotional guilt.
INTENT TAGS:
#admitting_failure
#parting
#guilt
#protection
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
保护好
SPOKEN CHUNK
protect properly / safeguard well
A resultative complement construction indicating taking comprehensive and successful care of someone.
Modal Particle「了」 (le)
CHANGE OF STATE
Signals a painful shift in circumstances or capacity, highlighting that things can no longer stay the way they were.
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3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《The Lead》 S1·E20 (07:21) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus