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《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E4 (19:21) HSK 4
suǒ yǐ zhè jiù shì nǐ zhè jǐ tiān qǐng jià de yuán yīn

所以这就是你这几天请假的原因

“This is why you took leave these days?”

《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E4
TIMECODE: 19:21 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN gǎn kuài chī a

赶快吃啊

“Eat up.”

suǒ yǐ zhè jiù shì nǐ zhè jǐ tiān qǐng jià de yuán yīn CURRENT FOCUS

所以这就是你这几天请假的原因

“This is why you took leave these days?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ zěn me zhī dào wǒ qǐng jià

“How did you know?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: DRAWING CONCLUSION
Tone: INSIGHTFUL
Emotion: REALIZATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Now I finally understand what you were hiding behind your absence.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Indirect Disclosure among Peers

In Chinese work culture, personal reasons for taking leave are often guarded discreetly, so piecing together a colleague's real motive often happens through indirect clues.

INTENT TAGS: #deduction #realization #confronting_secret #connecting_dots
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
请假 SPOKEN CHUNK

ask for leave / take time off

Essential everyday workplace and school vocabulary for requesting absence.

这就是...的原因 SPOKEN CHUNK

this is the reason why...

A useful structural frame for articulating a deduction or logical realization.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 9 GRAMMAR
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