MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Tang Mist》 S1·E8 (07:19) HSK 1
shì yí gè liáng shàn zhī bèi

是一个良善之辈

“but she seems like a kind soul.”

《The Tang Mist》 S1·E8
TIMECODE: 07:19 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN dàn kàn miàn xiàng

但看面相

“but she seems like a kind soul.”

shì yí gè liáng shàn zhī bèi CURRENT FOCUS

是一个良善之辈

“but she seems like a kind soul.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN huà

画

“Draw!”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Legal & Police
Function: ASSESSING CHARACTER
Tone: ANALYTICAL AND OBJECTIVE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Physiognomy (看相/面相)

Traditional Chinese culture places significant stock in physiognomy, the belief that a person's inner moral character and destiny can be deciphered from facial features.

INTENT TAGS: #evaluating #profiling #character_assessment #reasoning
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
良善之辈 SPOKEN CHUNK

a kind and upright sort of person

A literary and formal classification meaning a harmless, law-abiding individual.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 4 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Tang Mist》 S1·E8 (07:19) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus