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《My Destiny》 S1·E6 (29:03) HSK 7
wèi shá bù gōng nǐ shàng wán dà xué a

为啥不供你上完大学啊

“Why didn't he pay for you to finish college?”

《My Destiny》 S1·E6
TIMECODE: 29:03 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN xiàng shì gè gàn bù

像是个干部

“seems in civil service.”

wèi shá bù gōng nǐ shàng wán dà xué a CURRENT FOCUS

为啥不 供你 上完 大学啊

“Why didn't he pay for you to finish college?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN tā shì wǒ yǎng fù

他是我养父

“He's my foster father.”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: INQUIRING BACKGROUND
Tone: INQUISITIVE
Emotion: CURIOSITY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“If he was well-off, it makes no sense that he stopped paying for your college.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Parental Financial Obligation for Education

In Chinese culture, parents are traditionally expected to fund their children's education through college graduation, making dropping out due to lack of parental support unusual.

INTENT TAGS: #inquiring #probing #curiosity #questioning
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
为啥 SPOKEN CHUNK

why; how come

A very common colloquial, spoken equivalent of 为什么 frequently used in Northern Chinese dialects and informal daily conversations.

供...上大学 SPOKEN CHUNK

to financially support someone through college

Use this collocation when describing parents or benefactors funding a student's university tuition and living expenses.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the interrogative question to sound conversational and genuinely curious rather than an aggressive interrogation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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