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《Road to Success》 S1·E17 (18:30) HSK 7
suǒ yǐ wǒ yě bǎ zhè xiē dàng chéng shì tā lǐ suǒ dāng rán de

所以我也把这些 当成是他理所当然的

“So I took his behavior [Another teammate left today. Coach didn't say much about it.] for granted. [I know he was eliminated by the club.] [The manager said that competition is a purifier.]”

《Road to Success》 S1·E17
TIMECODE: 18:30 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN tā fēi cháng fēi cháng yán gé dì yāo qiú zì jǐ

他非常非常严格地要求自己

“[I'm under a lot of pressure. I got food poisoning last week.] He was very strict with himself. [I took two days off. During this week's training,] [everyone seems to be better except me. I can't fall behind.]”

suǒ yǐ wǒ yě bǎ zhè xiē dàng chéng shì tā lǐ suǒ dāng rán de CURRENT FOCUS

所以我也把这些 当成 是他 理所当然 的

“So I took his behavior [Another teammate left today. Coach didn't say much about it.] for granted. [I know he was eliminated by the club.] [The manager said that competition is a purifier.]”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN tā hěn shǎo xiàng wǒ qīng sù tā zì jǐ de shì qíng

他很少向我倾诉他自己的事情

“[But I felt tired when answering Mom's video call.] He rarely confided his own things to me, [She mumbled a lot and just wanted me to get a good result.]”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: ADMITTING FAULT
Tone: REFLECTIVE
Emotion: REGRET
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I was foolish and selfish to assume he was invincible and didn't need support.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Silent Endurance (Chiku Nailao)

In Chinese relationships, one partner often bears burdens silently out of duty, which can inadvertently lead the other to take their sacrifices for granted.

INTENT TAGS: #self_reproach #confession #reflection #regret
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
当成 SPOKEN CHUNK

to treat as; to regard as

Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe mistaking or treating one thing as another.

理所当然 SPOKEN CHUNK

taken for granted; natural and expected

A useful four-character idiom to express that something is considered completely natural or assumed without appreciation.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Placed at the end of the phrase to nominalize the attribute and emphasize certainty about the categorization.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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