《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E23 (29:44)
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dǎ kāi tiān chuāng shuō liàng huà ba
打开天窗说亮话吧
“Let's be frank.”
《The Glamorous Night》
S1·E23
TIMECODE: 29:44
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
dǎ kāi tiān chuāng shuō liàng huà ba
CURRENT FOCUS
打开天窗说亮话 吧
“Let's be frank.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
nǐ shǒu shàng yǒu bù shǎo gōng sī de bǎ bǐng
你手上有不少公司的把柄
“You hold damaging information about the company.”
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Scene:
Business & Trade
Function:
DEMANDING DIRECTNESS
Tone:
ASSERTIVE
Emotion:
DETERMINATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Let's drop the act and put all our cards on the table right now.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Explicit Signaling Before Directness
Because Chinese communication generally favors high-context indirectness, speakers often use idioms like 'opening the skylight' to explicitly announce that they are about to break the norm and speak bluntly.
INTENT TAGS:
#confronting
#being_blunt
#negotiating
#cutting_pretense
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
打开天窗说亮话
SPOKEN CHUNK
speak frankly / put all cards on the table / not mince words
A classic four-part idiom (xiehouyu-derived expression) used when you want to stop hinting and speak bluntly during a tense negotiation.
Modal Particle「吧」 (ba)
CHANGE OF STATE
Frames a firm demand for frankness as a mutual proposal, slightly softening the command while maintaining authority.
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1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E23 (29:44) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus