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《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E20 (14:12) HSK 6
shí jiān jiù shì jīn qián duì ba

时间就是金钱 对吧

“"Time is money." Right?”

《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E20
TIMECODE: 14:12 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yǒu jù sú huà shuō dé hǎo

有句俗话说得好

“As the saying goes,”

shí jiān jiù shì jīn qián duì ba CURRENT FOCUS

时间就是金钱 对吧

“"Time is money." Right?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ kàn a

你看啊

“Look.”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: PERSUADING
Tone: PERSUASIVE
Emotion: URGENCY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop wasting time and let's get down to business immediately.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Preempting Objections via Established Maxims (援引名言)

Citing widely accepted maxims like 'Time is money' creates an aura of indisputable logic, cornering the other party into agreement before pitching an idea.

INTENT TAGS: #persuasion #seeking_agreement #efficiency #urgency
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
时间就是金钱 SPOKEN CHUNK

time is money

A famous proverb widely used in business, negotiation, or daily productivity discussions to stress efficiency.

对吧 SPOKEN CHUNK

right? / isn't that so?

A conversational tag question used at the end of a statement to seek confirmation or force consensus.

Modal Particle「吧」 (ba) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions as a tag seeking agreement and consensus from the listener.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

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

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