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《The Truth》 S1·E10 (08:05) HSK 5
nǐ zhēng de nà jǐ gè zi ér lián jǐ qiān kuài qián dōu méi yǒu

你挣的那几个子儿 连几千块钱都没有

“And your salary is just a few thousand yuan.”

《The Truth》 S1·E10
TIMECODE: 08:05 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ hái xiǎng ràng wǒ zěn me yàng zhè fáng zi jiù shì gè èr shǒu de

“What more do you want from me? This is just a secondhand house.”

nǐ zhēng de nà jǐ gè zi ér lián jǐ qiān kuài qián dōu méi yǒu CURRENT FOCUS

你挣的那 几个子儿 连 几千块钱都 没有

“And your salary is just a few thousand yuan.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ zài xiǎng shén me ya nǐ lián chē dōu yǎng bù qǐ

“What are you proud of? You can't even afford a car.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: BELITTLING
Tone: DERISIVE AND AGGRESSIVE
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You earn basically nothing, so stop acting like you have a say.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Financial Adequacy and Partner Resentment

Expressing income in terms of meager spare change demeans the partner's societal worth, exposing acute anxiety over marital living standards.

INTENT TAGS: #demeaning #discrediting #financial_attack #provocation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
几个子儿 SPOKEN CHUNK

a mere few pennies; chump change

A northern dialect colloquialism used to demean a trivial sum of money.

连……都没有 SPOKEN CHUNK

do not even have...

An emphatic construction highlighting an extreme baseline that fails to be met.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
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