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《The Knockout》 S1·E17 (02:01) HSK 4
shí wǔ yī jīn nǐ kàn zhè yú dōu kuài sǐ le hái mài shí wǔ yī jīn

十五一斤 你看这鱼都快死了 还卖十五一斤

“15 yuan for half a kilo. The fish is dying. Your price is too high.”

《The Knockout》 S1·E17
TIMECODE: 02:01 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN lǎo bǎn zhè yú zěn me mài

“Excuse me, how much is the fish?”

shí wǔ yī jīn nǐ kàn zhè yú dōu kuài sǐ le hái mài shí wǔ yī jīn CURRENT FOCUS

十五一斤 你看 这鱼都 快死了 还卖 十五一斤

“15 yuan for half a kilo. The fish is dying. Your price is too high.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN pián yi yì diǎn xíng bù xíng a pián yi diǎn wǒ duō mǎi diǎn

“Can you give me a cheaper price? Make it cheaper and I'll buy more.”

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Scene: Daily Life
Function: BARGAINING
Tone: CRITICAL
Emotion: DISCONTENT
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“This fish isn't worth full price; give me a discount or I won't buy it.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Market Bargaining Tactics (Kanjia)

In Chinese wet markets, finding minor flaws in produce (such as fish not swimming actively) is a standard rhetorical convention used to initiate price negotiations.

INTENT TAGS: #bargaining #price_negotiation #fault_finding #leverage
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
快死了 SPOKEN CHUNK

almost dying / barely alive

Used colloquially to describe dying seafood/animals or metaphorically for exhausted items or people.

十五一斤 SPOKEN CHUNK

fifteen yuan per half-kilogram

Standard marketplace shorthand for unit pricing in mainland China ('jin' is roughly 500 grams).

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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