MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Lead》 S1·E16 (31:17) HSK 1
wǒ shuō le nǐ duō shǎo huí le

我说了你多少回了

“How many times must I tell you?”

《The Lead》 S1·E16
TIMECODE: 31:17 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN niáng zǐ tíng tíng tíng

娘子 停 停 停

“My lady! Stop, stop, stop.”

wǒ shuō le nǐ duō shǎo huí le CURRENT FOCUS

我说 了你多少回了

“How many times must I tell you?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ lǎo tā zhe gè yāo nǐ yǎn de shì lín niáng zǐ

“You keep slouching your back. You're playing Lady Lin.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Workplace
Function: REPRIMANDING
Tone: CRITICAL
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You should know better by now, stop making the same basic mistake.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Master-Apprentice Directness

In traditional Chinese performing arts troupes, directors or masters possess absolute authority and criticize subordinates bluntly without hedging.

INTENT TAGS: #scolding #impatience #critique #demanding_improvement
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
说了你多少回了 SPOKEN CHUNK

told you so many times

Use this rhetorical pattern to scold someone who repeatedly ignores instructions or makes the same mistake.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Emphasizes the completion of numerous prior attempts and reinforces the speaker's exasperation.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Lead》 S1·E16 (31:17) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus