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《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E13 (06:51) HSK 7
zuò shēng yì péi qián hěn zhèng cháng de

做生意赔钱很正常的

“It's normal to lose money in business.”

《Live up to Your Youth》 S1·E13
TIMECODE: 06:51 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ bú shì shuō le ma

我不是说了吗

“Didn't I tell you?”

zuò shēng yì péi qián hěn zhèng cháng de CURRENT FOCUS

做生意 赔钱 很正常 的

“It's normal to lose money in business.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN ér qiě zhè ge shì qíng

而且这个事情

“Besides,”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: COMFORTING
Tone: REASSURING
Emotion: CALMNESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't beat yourself up over this loss; it is an unavoidable cost of doing business.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Accepting Entrepreneurial Risk

In Chinese business culture, normalizing initial losses is a common rhetorical strategy to maintain partnership morale and protect face amid financial strain.

INTENT TAGS: #reassurance #rationalization #comforting #normalizing
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

3 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
做生意 SPOKEN CHUNK

to do business; to run a business

The standard colloquial term for commerce, entrepreneurship, or private trade.

赔钱 SPOKEN CHUNK

to lose money

Used specifically for running at a loss or suffering a negative return on an investment.

很正常的 SPOKEN CHUNK

completely normal; quite natural

A frequent reassurance pattern used to normalize unfortunate mishaps or setbacks.

Modal Particle「的」 (de) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions sentence-finally to assert certainty and reassure the listener of an objective fact.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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