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《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E4 (17:35) HSK 1
yī zhěng tiān kàn bú dào rén

一整天看不到人

“I haven't seen you all day.”

《Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars》 S1·E4
TIMECODE: 17:35 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ shì pǎo shén me dà yè wù a

“What big business have you been dealing with?”

yī zhěng tiān kàn bú dào rén CURRENT FOCUS

一整天看不到人

“I haven't seen you all day.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN méi yǒu la shì yǒu rén gǎo shī zōng

“No business. Someone went missing.”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: COMPLAINING
Tone: INQUISITIVE
Emotion: CURIOSITY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You have been completely out of touch all day—what are you really doing?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Peer Monitoring in Collegial Culture

Coworkers often use banter about 'disappearing' to playfully check in on each other's whereabouts without initiating formal accountability.

INTENT TAGS: #teasing #inquiry #calling_out #suspicion
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
一整天 SPOKEN CHUNK

the whole day; all day long

A standard temporal chunk used to emphasize duration, often to heighten complaints or descriptions of continuous states.

看不到人 SPOKEN CHUNK

nowhere to be seen; out of sight

A colloquial way to describe a person being unreachable, absent, or conspicuously missing.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 4 GRAMMAR
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