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《Vanished Name》 S1·E10 (13:37) HSK 2
zhè shàng wǔ jiù gāi dào jiā le dōu jǐ diǎn le dōu gāi chī wǎn fàn le

这上午就该到家了 都几点了 都该吃晚饭了

“You should arrive this morning. What time is it? It's dinner time. Where did you go?”

《Vanished Name》 S1·E10
TIMECODE: 13:37 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǎ jiā de nǐ yě méi liǎn chī

“You've got no right to eat anyway.”

zhè shàng wǔ jiù gāi dào jiā le dōu jǐ diǎn le dōu gāi chī wǎn fàn le CURRENT FOCUS

这上午就 该到家了 都几点了 都该吃晚饭了

“You should arrive this morning. What time is it? It's dinner time. Where did you go?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ yòu shàng nǎ ér fēng qù le

你又上哪儿疯去了

“It's dinner time. Where did you go?”

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Scene: Family & Home
Function: SCOLDING
Tone: REPROACHFUL
Emotion: ANNOYANCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Where on earth have you been fooling around all day instead of coming straight home?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Parental Curfew and Scolding

Chinese parents often monitor family members' schedules closely, using meal times as key temporal anchors to scold tardiness.

INTENT TAGS: #scolding #complaining #reproaching #impatience
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
都几点了 SPOKEN CHUNK

look at what time it is / it is so late already

A rhetorical question used to express exasperation at someone's lateness or delay.

就该 SPOKEN CHUNK

should have already

Used to emphasize an unmet expectation that was supposed to happen much earlier.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks a change of state and intensifies the sense of overdue time and exasperation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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