《Mama Go!》 S1·E13 (17:57)
HSK 3
zhè shàng xué bù jiù shì wèi le hǎo gōng zuò ma
这上学不就是为了好工作吗
“isn't going to school just for getting a good job?”
《Mama Go!》
S1·E13
TIMECODE: 17:57
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
nǐ shuō shuō
你说说
“Tell me,”
zhè shàng xué bù jiù shì wèi le hǎo gōng zuò ma
CURRENT FOCUS
这 上学 不就是为了 好 工作 吗
“isn't going to school just for getting a good job?”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
nà nǐ xiàn zài yǐ jīng yǒu le hǎo de gōng zuò
那你现在已经有了好的工作
“And now you already have a good job.”
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Scene:
Family & Home
Function:
ARGUING A POINT
Tone:
PRAGMATIC
Emotion:
INDIFFERENCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Why bother going to school if the only real point is to land a good job anyway?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Pragmatic View of Education
In contemporary Chinese society, academic credentials are intensely viewed as utilitarian stepping stones to stable, high-paying employment rather than purely intellectual pursuits.
INTENT TAGS:
#justifying
#arguing
#rhetorical_question
#pragmatism
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
不就是为了
SPOKEN CHUNK
isn't it simply for the sake of
A common rhetorical framing used to reduce complex activities to a single pragmatic purpose.
Modal Particle「吗」 (ma)
CHANGE OF STATE
Marks a rhetorical question expecting agreement with the speaker's pragmatic premise.
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3 EXPR · 14 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
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《Mama Go!》 S1·E13 (17:57) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus