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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E14 (19:47) HSK 6
nǐ jiù suàn shì zhēn zhuī shàng le yī jìn shān zǒu shí duō tiān

你就算是真追上了 一进山走十多天

“Even if you do win her over, you go into the mountains for days,”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E14
TIMECODE: 19:47 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ ná shén me zhuī a

你拿什么追啊

“What do you have to offer?”

nǐ jiù suàn shì zhēn zhuī shàng le yī jìn shān zǒu shí duō tiān CURRENT FOCUS

你 就算是真追上了 一进 山走十多天

“Even if you do win her over, you go into the mountains for days,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN rén jiā zài wài miàn gàn děng zhe gē nǐ bié tīng tā de yào wǒ shuō

人家在外面干等着 哥 你别听她的 要我说

“leaving her waiting outside. Bro, don't listen to her. I say,”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: DISSUADING
Tone: PRAGMATIC AND URGENT
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Be realistic; this plan is absurd and will cause more trouble than it is worth.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Pragmatic Intervention in Family Matters

Chinese siblings or close peers frequently intervene directly and bluntly to prevent a loved one from making reckless, emotionally driven mistakes.

INTENT TAGS: #dissuasion #reality_check #arguing #discouragement
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
就算是 SPOKEN CHUNK

even if / granted that

Use this connective to concede a hypothetical point before showing why it still does not solve the main problem.

追上 SPOKEN CHUNK

to catch up with / to overtake

A common directional complement construction used for physical pursuit or keeping up with progress.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the completion or realization of catching up in the hypothetical clause.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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