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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E14 (22:45) HSK 4
jiù shì wǒ yòu shuō dà huà shén me zhī lèi de

就是我又说大话 什么之类的

“Like I'm talking big again or something like that.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E14
TIMECODE: 22:45 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shuō shén me

说什么

“Say what?”

jiù shì wǒ yòu shuō dà huà shén me zhī lèi de CURRENT FOCUS

就是我 又 说大话 什么 之类的

“Like I'm talking big again or something like that.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ hái shì shǎo shuō chéng shí zhè liǎng gè zì ba

“You should talk less about honesty.”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: CLARIFYING ACCUSATION
Tone: SELF_DEPRECATING
Emotion: EMBARRASSMENT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I know you think I'm full of hot air again, don't you?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Blowing Hot Air (吹牛 / 说大话)

Chinese interpersonal communication places high value on reliability (靠谱); admitting upfront that one might be seen as talking big is often a rhetorical buffer against harsher judgment.

INTENT TAGS: #self_deprecation #clarification #preemptive_defense #acknowledgment
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
说大话 SPOKEN CHUNK

to brag; to talk big; to boast

Extremely frequent idiom used to describe boasting or making promises one cannot keep.

什么之类的 SPOKEN CHUNK

and stuff like that; or something along those lines

A common conversational filler used to generalize examples loosely.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

4 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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