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《Dream of Golden Years》 S1·E24 (10:58) HSK 5
shì bú shì pèi hé dé tiān yī wú fèng hái tái jià

是不是配合得天衣无缝 还抬价

“Didn't I pull that off flawlessly? Drive up the price?”

《Dream of Golden Years》 S1·E24
TIMECODE: 10:58 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ lái gàn má bāng nǐ tái jià a

“Why are you here? To help you drive up the price.”

shì bú shì pèi hé dé tiān yī wú fèng hái tái jià CURRENT FOCUS

是不是 配合 得 天衣无缝 还 抬价

“Didn't I pull that off flawlessly? Drive up the price?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN mǎi jiā dōu bèi nǐ jiǎo huo zǒu le

买家都被你搅和走了

“You drove the buyer away.”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: SARCASTIC CRITICISM
Tone: SARCASTIC
Emotion: ANNOYANCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You completely messed up our plan and chased the customer away.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Irony and Mockery (反讽)

Chinese speakers often employ rhetorical questions paired with grand idioms like '天衣无缝' to emphasize how ridiculous someone's mistake was.

INTENT TAGS: #sarcasm #reproach #mockery #criticism
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
天衣无缝 SPOKEN CHUNK

seamless / flawless

An idiom referring to perfection, frequently used ironically in spoken Chinese to highlight catastrophic blunders.

抬价 SPOKEN CHUNK

to drive up prices / bid up

Used in sales and auction contexts to describe artificially increasing a price tag.

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4 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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