《The Inner Eye》 S1·E29 (08:07)
HSK 2
wǒ bú shì zǎo gēn nǐ shuō guò le ma
我不是早跟你说过了吗
“I've told you earlier.”
《The Inner Eye》
S1·E29
TIMECODE: 08:07
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
méi diàn le
没电了
“The power is out.”
wǒ bú shì zǎo gēn nǐ shuō guò le ma
CURRENT FOCUS
我不是 早跟你说过了吗
“I've told you earlier.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
nǐ men nà dà gōng lǜ diàn qì
你们那大功率电器
“Don't keep high-power appliances on”
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Scene:
Daily Life
Function:
REPRIMANDING
Tone:
REPROACHFUL
Emotion:
ANNOYANCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I warned you already, and you brought this outage on yourself by not listening to me.”
💡 Cultural Insight: I-Told-You-So Rhetoric
Using '我不是...吗' (Didn't I...) serves as a direct rhetorical device to establish blame and reinforce authority when a subordinate or tenant violates communal rules.
INTENT TAGS:
#reprimanding
#blaming
#exasperation
#reminding
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
我不是早跟你说了吗
SPOKEN CHUNK
Didn't I tell you a long time ago?
A rhetorical question used to express exasperation when an outcome you warned someone about actually happens.
Modal Particle「吗」 (ma)
CHANGE OF STATE
Turns the rhetorical negative statement into an emphatic reminder/reproach.
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2 EXPR · 8 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《The Inner Eye》 S1·E29 (08:07) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus