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《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E23 (24:43) HSK 6
nǐ shì xiāo shòu fù zǒng cái zhè zhǒng shì qíng shì yīng gāi ràng zǒng jiān qù zuò ba

你是销售副总裁 这种事情是应该让总监去做吧

“Peter, you're the Sales VP. Shouldn't this be handled by a director?”

《The Glamorous Night》 S1·E23
TIMECODE: 24:43 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà wǒ qù yǐn jiàn wǒ qù zhǎo tā bǐ dé

那我去引见 我去找他 彼得

“I'll make the introduction. I'll go get him. Peter, you're the Sales VP.”

nǐ shì xiāo shòu fù zǒng cái zhè zhǒng shì qíng shì yīng gāi ràng zǒng jiān qù zuò ba CURRENT FOCUS

你 是 销售 副总裁 这种事 情 是 应该让总监去做 吧

“Peter, you're the Sales VP. Shouldn't this be handled by a director?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN xǔ zǒng

许总

“Mr. Xu,”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: INDIRECT REFUSAL
Tone: DIPLOMATIC
Emotion: CAUTION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stay out of this; it's beneath your pay grade and I don't want you stepping in.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Hierarchical Delegation and Face

In Chinese corporate culture, invoking someone's senior title to dissuade them from doing ground-level work is a classic face-giving way to block their interference.

INTENT TAGS: #boundary_setting #indirect_refusal #invoking_hierarchy #hedging
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
销售副总裁 SPOKEN CHUNK

Vice President of Sales

Standard corporate title used in formal and daily business contexts.

这种事情 SPOKEN CHUNK

this kind of matter / such things

Often used to categorize a task as trivial or specific when delegating or dismissing it.

Modal Particle「吧」 (ba) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the assertion into a rhetorical suggestion, making the boundary-setting sound polite rather than confrontational.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
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