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《My Page in the 90s》 S1·E5 (15:11) HSK 6
zhè me fèi jìn xīn sī qì de mó xíng

这么费尽心思砌的模型

“give away such a painstakingly assembled model?”

《My Page in the 90s》 S1·E5
TIMECODE: 15:11 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nán bù chéng yǒu rén huì bǎ

难不成有人会把

“Could someone really”

zhè me fèi jìn xīn sī qì de mó xíng CURRENT FOCUS

这么 费尽心思 砌的模型

“give away such a painstakingly assembled model?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN gěi bié rén ma

给别人吗

“give away such a painstakingly assembled model?”

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Scene: Daily Life
Function: EXPRESSING INCREDULITY
Tone: INCREDULOUS
Emotion: SKEPTICISM
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Nobody parts with something this hard to make without a serious reason.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Effort as an Indicator of Emotion (Xin Yi)

In Chinese culture, the amount of thought and effort (xinsi/xinyi) invested into an object signifies the depth of interpersonal sentiment behind it.

INTENT TAGS: #skepticism #questioning #deduction #incredulity
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
费尽心思 SPOKEN CHUNK

to rack one's brains / to take painstaking trouble

A common four-character idiom describing intense thought, effort, and care put into achieving something.

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1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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