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《A Splendid Match》 S1·E5 (08:08) HSK 3
hái yǒu yí gè wài shì dōu yǎng le yī nián duō le zhè

还有一个外室 都养了一年多了 这

“and a secret mistress for over a year now. He's...”

《A Splendid Match》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 08:08 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN bù jǐn wū lǐ yǎng le hǎo jǐ gè tōng fáng

“He's got bed-warming maids”

hái yǒu yí gè wài shì dōu yǎng le yī nián duō le zhè CURRENT FOCUS

还有 一个 外室 都养了一年多了 这

“and a secret mistress for over a year now. He's...”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN shén me

什么

“What?”

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Scene: Family & Home
Function: GOSSIPING AND INFORMING
Tone: SCANDALIZED
Emotion: DISBELIEF
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You won't believe how outrageous this man is—he's been hiding a secret mistress the entire time!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Traditional Polygamy and Domestic Hierarchy

In pre-modern China, taking concubines was legally regulated, but keeping an unapproved 'outside mistress' without the main wife's consent was seen as a moral and legal breach.

INTENT TAGS: #gossiping #revealing_secrets #indignation #character_judgment
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
外室 SPOKEN CHUNK

mistress kept in a separate residence

A traditional Chinese term referring to an unacknowledged concubine living outside the official marital household.

养了一年多 SPOKEN CHUNK

supported financially / kept for over a year

Often used in relational contexts to indicate supporting a dependent or illicit partner financially.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Indicates the ongoing accumulation of time up to the present moment.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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