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《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E2 (11:05) HSK 5
nà dāng rán shì yǐ kǒu gòng wéi zhǔ le zhè kān yàn

那当然是以口供为主了 这勘验

“The testimonies prevail, of course. Examination results...”

《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E2
TIMECODE: 11:05 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà ruò shì kǒu gòng yǔ kān yàn duì bù shàng zěn me bàn

“What if the testimonies don't match the examination results?”

nà dāng rán shì yǐ kǒu gòng wéi zhǔ le zhè kān yàn CURRENT FOCUS

那当然 是 以口供为主 了 这勘验

“The testimonies prevail, of course. Examination results...”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN kān yàn nǎ yǒu shí zú bǎo zhǔn de

“They're not always accurate.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: ASSERTING PRIORITY
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: CONFIDENCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Confessions are concrete and easy to close cases with; do not overcomplicate things with forensic doubts.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Primacy of Oral Confession in Traditional Law

In historical Chinese judicial practice, obtaining a verbal or written confession (口供) was traditionally viewed as the decisive piece of evidence required to conclude a case.

INTENT TAGS: #asserting #prioritizing #dismissing #adjudicating
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
以……为主 SPOKEN CHUNK

to give primary importance to / to focus mainly on

A formal grammatical construction used to identify the primary focus or dominant factor among several options.

那当然 SPOKEN CHUNK

well of course / naturally then

Used at the start of a response to emphatically affirm a point as self-evident.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Emphasizes the decisive, unquestionable nature of the conclusion.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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