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《The Dream Maker》 S1·E11 (31:07) HSK 3
dōu xū yào huā qián bú shì

都需要花钱不是

“and cost money, right?”

《The Dream Maker》 S1·E11
TIMECODE: 31:07 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN gè gè fāng miàn dōu xū yào dǎ diǎn ma

各个方面都需要打点嘛

“There are many things to take care of”

dōu xū yào huā qián bú shì CURRENT FOCUS

都需要 花钱 不是

“and cost money, right?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN duō shǎo qián

多少钱

“How much?”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: JUSTIFYING EXPENSES
Tone: PRAGMATIC
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You know how things work—if we want results, we have to pay up.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Dadian (Social Lubrication Costs)

In business contexts, speakers often frame informal grease payments or relationship-building costs as common-sense necessities that require mutual understanding.

INTENT TAGS: #justification #persuasion #seeking_consensus #rationalization
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
花钱 SPOKEN CHUNK

to spend money

A fundamental daily verb-object collocation used to describe monetary expenditure.

不是 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't that right / right?

Placed at the end of a sentence as a rhetorical tag to seek agreement and soften an assertion.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR BLUEPRINTS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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