MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E5 (15:34) HSK 3
nǐ zěn me hái wán qǐ yóu xì le

你怎么还玩起游戏了

“Since when do you play video games?”

《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 15:34 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN méi shén me tè bié de shì

没什么特别的事

“Nothing special.”

nǐ zěn me hái wán qǐ yóu xì le CURRENT FOCUS

你 怎么还 玩起游戏 了

“Since when do you play video games?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bú shì zài wán

不是在玩

“I'm not playing.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Daily Life
Function: QUESTIONING BEHAVIOR
Tone: QUESTIONING
Emotion: SURPRISE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Shouldn't you be doing something more serious instead of goofing off with a game right now?”
INTENT TAGS: #mild_reproach #surprise #questioning #calling_out
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
怎么还 SPOKEN CHUNK

why even; how come still

Used to express surprise, confusion, or mild reproach when someone does something unexpected or inappropriate.

玩起游戏 SPOKEN CHUNK

start playing games

An example of inserting the directional complement 'qi' into a verb-object phrase to indicate initiating an action.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Indicates a new situation or change of state that the speaker has just noticed.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Devil Between Us》 S1·E5 (15:34) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus