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《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E5 (13:58) HSK 7
jìng rán pǎo qù xī dú yǐ fàn yǎng xī de shì jiù gèng bù qīng chǔ le

竟然跑去吸毒 以贩养吸的事就更不清楚了

“Tang Sile actually started using drugs. She knew even less about him dealing to support his habit.”

《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 13:58 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yě méi ràng táng sī lè zài chī le tā bù zhī dào táng sī lè tíng yào zhī hòu

也没让唐斯乐再吃了 她不知道唐斯乐停药之后

“She didn't let Tang Sile take it anymore either. But she didn't know that after stopping it,”

jìng rán pǎo qù xī dú yǐ fàn yǎng xī de shì jiù gèng bù qīng chǔ le CURRENT FOCUS

竟然 跑去 吸毒 以贩养吸 的事就更 不清楚 了

“Tang Sile actually started using drugs. She knew even less about him dealing to support his habit.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN mǎi yào de qú dào tā shuō le ma shuō le nuǎn ān yào diàn

买药的渠道她说了吗 说了 暖安药店

“Did she say where she bought the drugs? Yes. Nuan'an Pharmacy.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: REPORTING INFORMATION
Tone: OBJECTIVE
Emotion: SURPRISE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Legal Idioms in Policing

Four-character legal formulas like '以贩养吸' are widely used in Chinese legal contexts to summarize criminal patterns concisely.

INTENT TAGS: #case_reporting #expressing_disbelief #fact_clarification #investigation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
竟然 SPOKEN CHUNK

unexpectedly / to one's surprise

Used before an action to express disbelief or shock that something contrary to expectations occurred.

以贩养吸 SPOKEN CHUNK

dealing drugs to finance one's own drug addiction

A common legal and policing idiom specifically denoting drug users who sell drugs to afford their own habit.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the completion of an unexpected change of state in '吸毒' and reinforces finality in '不清楚了'.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

5 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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