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《Our Dazzling Days》 S1·E14 (19:57) HSK 6
nǐ zhī bù zhī dào rén xià rén xià sǐ rén a

你知不知道人吓人吓死人啊

“Don't you know you can literally scare someone to death?”

《Our Dazzling Days》 S1·E14
TIMECODE: 19:57 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ gàn shén me ya

你干什么呀

“What are you doing?”

nǐ zhī bù zhī dào rén xià rén xià sǐ rén a CURRENT FOCUS

你知不知道 人吓人吓死人 啊

“Don't you know you can literally scare someone to death?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ zhī dào

我知道

“I know!”

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Scene: Daily Life
Function: SCOLDING AFTER SHOCK
Tone: INDIGNANT
Emotion: FEAR
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Exaggerated Colloquial Idioms

Chinese speakers often rely on fixed, rhythmic folk idioms like '人吓人吓死人' to express natural emotional venting without escalating to genuine hostility.

INTENT TAGS: #venting #reprimanding #startled #exclaiming
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
你知不知道 SPOKEN CHUNK

don't you know / do you realize

Used rhetorically at the start of a sentence to strongly emphasize an obvious point or convey reprimand.

人吓人吓死人 SPOKEN CHUNK

being startled by someone can scare a person to death

A widespread common idiom used directly when someone jumps out or suddenly surprises another person.

Modal Particle「啊」 (a) CHANGE OF STATE

Enhances the rhetorical exclamation and vents the lingering shock.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

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

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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