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《The Dream Maker》 S1·E11 (42:02) HSK 5
shì ba nǐ kàn nǐ men yuè hǎi zhè me duō qǐ yè shì ba

是吧 你看你们月海 这么多企业 是吧

“alright? Look, Yuehai has so many businesses.”

《The Dream Maker》 S1·E11
TIMECODE: 42:02 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zán men dé àn zhào nǐ yòng diàn duō shǎo rán hòu lái suàn nǐ zhè ge tíng diàn duō zhǎng

咱们得按照你用电多少 然后来算 你这个停电多长

“We base the outage duration on your electricity consumption,”

shì ba nǐ kàn nǐ men yuè hǎi zhè me duō qǐ yè shì ba CURRENT FOCUS

是吧 你看你 们月海 这么多 企业 是吧

“alright? Look, Yuehai has so many businesses.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yòng diàn liàng zhè me dà nà kěn dìng tíng diàn de shí cháng yě jiù gèng zhǎng le

用电量这么大 那肯定停电的时长 也就更长了

“With huge power usage. Naturally, the outage lasts longer.”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: BUILDING CONSENSUS
Tone: PERSUASIVE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You have to admit you have lots of companies, so accept that you'll bear the brunt of the outages.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Step-by-step Consensus Building (求同存异/层层递进)

In Chinese business negotiations, speakers often establish mutual agreement on indisputable baseline facts before presenting potentially unfavorable conditions.

INTENT TAGS: #persuasion #consensus_seeking #premise_setting #negotiation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
你看 SPOKEN CHUNK

look; you see

Used to draw the listener's attention to an observable fact or evidence supporting an argument.

是吧 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't that so?; right?

Repeated tag question used strategically in negotiations to lock in agreement on each premise.

Modal Particle「吧」 (ba) CHANGE OF STATE

Prompts conversational agreement and frames the statement as shared common knowledge.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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