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《Road to Success》 S1·E13 (25:07) HSK 7
nà nǐ fèi jìn ràng wǒ men xiě zhè me duō gàn má ya

那你费劲让我们写这么多干嘛呀

“Then why did you make us write so much?”

《Road to Success》 S1·E13
TIMECODE: 25:07 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ men rèn wéi bù nà me zhòng yào de shì qíng hái huà a bú shì

你们认为不那么重要的事情 还划啊 不是

“that you think are less important. More crossing out? Come on.”

nà nǐ fèi jìn ràng wǒ men xiě zhè me duō gàn má ya CURRENT FOCUS

那你 费劲 让我们写 这么多 干嘛呀

“Then why did you make us write so much?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN huà ba huà ba

划吧 划吧

“Just do it.”

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Scene: School & Education
Function: VOICING FRUSTRATION
Tone: CONFRONTATIONAL
Emotion: FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You wasted our time and effort making us write all this if you were just going to make us cross it out!”
💡 Cultural Insight: Venting Frustration over Wasted Effort

In Chinese collective or pedagogical settings, questioning the utility of a tedious task signals that participants feel their dedicated effort was unvalued.

INTENT TAGS: #complaint #challenge #frustration #questioning
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
费劲 SPOKEN CHUNK

go through great trouble; exert effort

Often used colloquially to describe taking unnecessary pains or strenuous effort.

干嘛呀 SPOKEN CHUNK

why; what for

A spoken rhetorical phrase that frequently conveys impatience, mild annoyance, or direct questioning.

Modal Particle「呀」 (ya) CHANGE OF STATE

Softens the phonetic transition while underscoring emotional exasperation in a rhetorical question.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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