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《Eight Hundred》 S1·E5 (26:21) HSK 1
zhè yě tài míng mù zhāng dǎn le ba

这也太明目张胆了吧

“(Chunghwa Cigarettes) This is way too blatant.”

《Eight Hundred》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 26:21 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ duō bāng máng

你多帮忙

“please help us out.”

zhè yě tài míng mù zhāng dǎn le ba CURRENT FOCUS

这也太 明目张胆 了 吧

“(Chunghwa Cigarettes) This is way too blatant.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zhè shì nǐ zhè de ba

这是你这的吧

“This is yours, right?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: CRITICIZING BEHAVIOR
Tone: REPROACHFUL
Emotion: DISAPPROVAL
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You are not even trying to hide this; you need to dial it back before we both get caught.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Discretion and Tacit Rules (潜规则与分寸)

Even when bending rules, Chinese workplace norms demand subtlety and discretion; doing things too brazenly disrupts plausible deniability and causes shared risk.

INTENT TAGS: #criticism #warning #reproach #calling_out
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
明目张胆 SPOKEN CHUNK

brazen; undisguised; doing evil in broad daylight

A common idiom (chengyu) used critically to describe someone openly committing an improper or forbidden act.

Modal Particle「了吧」 (le ba) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the blunt criticism into a rhetorical remark while seeking the listener's implicit acknowledgment.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
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