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《River Sunset》 S1·E5 (05:25) HSK 4
jì rán wǒ men qíng bào kè de

既然我们情报课的

“Since our Intelligence Section's”

《River Sunset》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 05:25 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zhè jiàn shì wǒ lái bàn

“I will handle this matter.”

jì rán wǒ men qíng bào kè de CURRENT FOCUS

既然 我们情报课的

“Since our Intelligence Section's”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN gù wèn lóng zé shǎo zuǒ zhè jǐ tiān

顾问泷泽少佐这几天

“advisor, Major Takizawa, has been”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: REASONING
Tone: DELIBERATE
Emotion: CALM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Since this involves our department directly, we have full jurisdiction to handle it.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Bureaucratic Justification Framing

Beginning an argument with '既然' ('since') frames the upcoming proposal as logically inevitable and backed by institutional roles, reducing the listener's ground to object.

INTENT TAGS: #framing #asserting #reasoning #jurisdiction
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
既然 SPOKEN CHUNK

since; given that

A formal conjunction initiating a clause that presents accepted common ground or established facts.

情报课 SPOKEN CHUNK

intelligence section; intelligence department

Bureaucratic and historical military terminology referring to an intelligence division.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Structural particle marking possession and trailing off before the noun head in the subsequent turn.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
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