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《Go Ahead》 S1·E28 (15:11) HSK 3
wǒ shì kàn bìng de yòu bú shì suàn mìng de

我是看病的 又不是算命的

“I'm a doctor, not a fortune teller.”

《Go Ahead》 S1·E28
TIMECODE: 15:11 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN méi zhǔn huà

没准话

“I can't.”

wǒ shì kàn bìng de yòu bú shì suàn mìng de CURRENT FOCUS

我是 看病的 又不是 算命的

“I'm a doctor, not a fortune teller.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ kàn nǐ ér zi tǐng mèn xīn lǐ cáng shì

我看你儿子挺闷 心里藏事

“Your son looks depressed to me. He has something on his mind.”

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Scene: Medical & Health
Function: DEFLECTING EXPECTATION
Tone: SARCASTIC
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Stop asking me for guarantees; medicine cannot predict the exact future.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Pragmatic Boundaries in Doctor-Patient Relations

Chinese doctors often deploy witty folk humor ('I am not a fortune teller') to manage excessive patient expectations and protect themselves against medical disputes.

INTENT TAGS: #boundary_setting #managing_expectations #sarcasm #professional_defense
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

3 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
看病的 SPOKEN CHUNK

a doctor / someone who treats illnesses

Colloquial occupational term designating a physician or clinical practitioner.

算命的 SPOKEN CHUNK

a fortune-teller

Used colloquially to contrast empirical knowledge with predictive superstition.

又不是 SPOKEN CHUNK

and certainly not / it is not like

A conversational structure used to rebut an unjustified assumption or demand.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions as a nominalizer turning the verb phrase into an agentive category, asserting occupational identity.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

4 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
我不仅会号脉看病 我还会看相呢
《莫离》
76% Match
我不仅会号脉看病 我还会看相呢
wǒ bù jǐn huì hào mài kàn bìng wǒ hái huì kàn xiàng ne

“I do more than feeling pulses and diagnosing. I can even read fortunes too.”

这算命的都说了
《逐玉》
71.5% Match
这算命的都说了
zhè suàn mìng de dōu shuō le

“The fortune tellers all say”

大部分的算命也好 占卜也好
《百万人推理》
71.1% Match
大部分的算命也好 占卜也好
dà bù fèn de suàn mìng yě hǎo zhān bǔ yě hǎo

“stop being a little bitch-ass?! Most fortune-telling relies on a person's psychological illusions.”

你是不是学过算命
《你好1983》
69.3% Match
你是不是学过算命
nǐ shì bú shì xué guò suàn mìng

“did you study fortune-telling or something?”

你说我这是什么命啊
《夜色正浓》
65.9% Match
你说我这是什么命啊
nǐ shuō wǒ zhè shì shén me mìng a

“What kind of fate is this for me?”

何大师除了会看风水 还会看病啊？
《乩身》
64.8% Match
何大师除了会看风水 还会看病啊？
hé dà shī chú le huì kàn fēng shuǐ hái huì kàn bìng a ？

“Master Ho, apart from feng shui, you're a doctor too?”

《Go Ahead》 S1·E28 (15:11) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus