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《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E38 (33:53) HSK 7
zhēn shì bù bù cuò ya

真是步步错呀

“would lead to mistake after mistake?”

《Coroner's Diary》 S1·E38
TIMECODE: 33:53 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shuí zhī dào zhè yī bù cuò

谁知道 这一步错

“Who would have known that one wrong step”

zhēn shì bù bù cuò ya CURRENT FOCUS

真是 步步错 呀

“would lead to mistake after mistake?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN huáng zǔ mǔ méi yǒu cuò shì zhè huáng jiā de guī jǔ cuò le

“Grandmother, you've done nothing wrong. It's the imperial rules that are wrong.”

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Scene: Historical & Court
Function: EXPRESSING REGRET
Tone: RESIGNED
Emotion: REGRET
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: One Wrong Step Leads to All Wrong (Yi Bu Cuo, Bu Bu Cuo)

Reflects a traditional Chinese fatalistic idiom regarding the catastrophic domino effect of making a fundamental moral or strategic error.

INTENT TAGS: #lamenting #regret #resignation #self_reproach
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
步步错 SPOKEN CHUNK

every step is a mistake / compounding errors

Used to describe a situation where an initial misstep causes every subsequent action to go wrong.

Modal Particle「呀」 (ya) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the assertion while amplifying personal emotional lamentation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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