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《The Truth》 S1·E28 (25:55) HSK 6
nǐ men jiù shì zhǎo bú dào rén le hái wǎng wǒ xiān shēng shēn shàng pō zàng shuǐ

你们就是找不到人了 还往我先生身上泼脏水

“You just can't find him, so you're smearing my husband.”

《The Truth》 S1·E28
TIMECODE: 25:55 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN bù kě néng

不可能

“Impossible.”

nǐ men jiù shì zhǎo bú dào rén le hái wǎng wǒ xiān shēng shēn shàng pō zàng shuǐ CURRENT FOCUS

你们 就是 找不到人 了 还往我先生身上 泼脏水

“You just can't find him, so you're smearing my husband.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nà jiù má fán nín zài shuō shuō wēn yǒng de qíng kuàng ba

“Then please tell us more about Wen Yong.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: DEFENDING REPUTATION
Tone: DEFENSIVE
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You are terrible at your jobs and trying to scapegoat my husband to close the case!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Family Defense and Moral Defamation

In Chinese culture, publicly casting moral slurs on a family member ('泼脏水') is seen as an existential threat to familial honor, prompting fierce pushback.

INTENT TAGS: #defensiveness #counterattack #indignation #rebuttal
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
泼脏水 SPOKEN CHUNK

to throw dirty water; to slander or smear someone

A common colloquial idiom used when someone maliciously spreads falsehoods or defames another person.

找不到人 SPOKEN CHUNK

unable to find the right person/culprit

Used here to point out the investigator's inability to locate the true perpetrator.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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