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《Generation to Generation》 S1·E11 (16:53) HSK 6
jiù suàn nǐ men kuài mǎ jiā biān bù chī bù hē

就算你们快马加鞭 不吃不喝

“Even if you ride nonstop, no food, no rest,”

《Generation to Generation》 S1·E11
TIMECODE: 16:53 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN xuě shān lí cǐ chù shǎo shuō yě yǒu qiān lǐ

“The Snow Mountain is at least a thousand li from here.”

jiù suàn nǐ men kuài mǎ jiā biān bù chī bù hē CURRENT FOCUS

就算 你们 快马加鞭 不吃不喝

“Even if you ride nonstop, no food, no rest,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yě dé shù shí rì cái néng dào ba

也得数十日才能到吧

“it'll take you dozens of days to get there.”

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Scene: Travel & Transit
Function: SKEPTICAL CHALLENGING
Tone: PRAGMATIC
Emotion: SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop rushing blindly; it is physically impossible to get there quickly.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Hypothetical Concession in Persuasion

Chinese rhetorical strategy frequently grants an extreme, almost impossible concession to firmly dismantle unrealistic expectations.

INTENT TAGS: #dissuasion #reality_check #skepticism #persuasion
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

3 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
就算 SPOKEN CHUNK

even if; even supposing

Introduces an extreme hypothetical concession in conversational Mandarin.

快马加鞭 SPOKEN CHUNK

at full speed; spurring the horse on

A classic idiom meaning to push forward at maximum possible speed without delay.

不吃不喝 SPOKEN CHUNK

without eating or drinking

Used hyperbolically to denote working or traveling continuously without any rest.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 4 GRAMMAR
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