《River Sunset》 S1·E15 (04:53)
HSK 7
dàn tā men yǎn jīng lǐ yě bù néng róu shā zi ya
但他们眼睛里也不能揉沙子呀
“But they also won't tolerate injustice.”
《River Sunset》
S1·E15
TIMECODE: 04:53
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
dàn tā men yǎn jīng lǐ yě bù néng róu shā zi ya
CURRENT FOCUS
但他们眼睛里也不能揉沙子呀
“But they also won't tolerate injustice.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
rì běn rén zài dǎo shàng gǎo dà tú shā
“The Japanese carried out a massacre on the island,”
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Scene:
Crisis & Conflict
Function:
ARGUING PRINCIPLES
Tone:
PASSIONATE
Emotion:
INDIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“They have their limits; you cannot expect them to watch atrocities without fighting back.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Zero Tolerance for Moral Transgression (眼睛里揉不得沙子)
A common Chinese idiom reflecting righteous indignation, symbolizing that someone cannot turn a blind eye to blatant injustice or corruption.
INTENT TAGS:
#indignation
#setting_boundaries
#moral_stand
#justification
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
眼里揉沙子
SPOKEN CHUNK
turn a blind eye to wrongdoing / tolerate flaws or injustice
Almost exclusively used in the negative to describe an uncompromising, zero-tolerance moral attitude.
Modal Particle「呀」 (ya)
CHANGE OF STATE
Softens the rhetorical intensity while urging the listener to recognize obvious human limits.
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1 EXPR · 6 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《River Sunset》 S1·E15 (04:53) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus