《The Epoch of Miyu》 S1·E22 (04:50)
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shuō bù xiǎng lì zhēng shàng yóu
说不想力争上游
“If I say I don't want to get promoted,”
《The Epoch of Miyu》
S1·E22
TIMECODE: 04:50
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
suǒ yǐ wǒ cái huì qù zuò zhè ge cè píng
“That is why I took this evaluation.”
shuō bù xiǎng lì zhēng shàng yóu
CURRENT FOCUS
说 不想 力争上游
“If I say I don't want to get promoted,”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
nà shì bù kě néng de
那是不可能的
“it will be a lie.”
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Scene:
Workplace
Function:
ADMITTING AMBITION
Tone:
PRAGMATIC
Emotion:
DETERMINATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Let's be real—of course I want to advance my career.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Upward Mobility vs. Concealed Ambition
While Chinese workplace norms often encourage humility, open acknowledgment of ambition is increasingly framed as honest realism.
INTENT TAGS:
#self_justification
#frankness
#ambition
#career_advancement
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1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
力争上游
SPOKEN CHUNK
to strive for the best; to aim high
Set idiom commonly used to describe active career striving and self-improvement.
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2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《轧戏》
88% Match
争取不要影响你的发挥啊
zhēng qǔ bú yào yǐng xiǎng nǐ de fā huī a
“so as not to hold you back.”
《狂飙》
85% Match
除非他不想往上升
chú fēi tā bù xiǎng wǎng shàng shēng
“Unless he doesn't want a promotion.”
《危险关系》
80% Match
其实我不想要什么优势
qí shí wǒ bù xiǎng yào shén me yōu shì
“Actually, I don't want any kind of upper hand.”
《The Epoch of Miyu》 S1·E22 (04:50) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus