MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Generation to Generation》 S1·E12 (19:18) HSK 4
wǒ děng àn zhào zhāo zhāo dà zhǎng guì de xióng tāo wěi lüè

我等按照昭昭大掌柜的雄韬伟略

“Following your brilliant strategies,”

《Generation to Generation》 S1·E12
TIMECODE: 19:18 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN xiǎo yàn zi zěn me le

小晏子 怎么了

“Qingyan, what is it?”

wǒ děng àn zhào zhāo zhāo dà zhǎng guì de xióng tāo wěi lüè CURRENT FOCUS

我 等 按照昭昭大掌柜 的 雄韬伟略

“Following your brilliant strategies,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN fā fèn tú qiáng jīng yì qiú jīng

发愤图强 精益求精

“we've worked hard and refined ourselves,”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Workplace
Function: FLATTERING SUPERIOR
Tone: FLATTERING
Emotion: ADMIRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I am buttering you up with grandiose praise so you stay happy with us.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Praising Superiors (Fengcheng)

Using high-flown classical idioms to flatter superiors is a well-known trope in Chinese commercial and administrative environments, often walking the line between homage and comedic sycophancy.

INTENT TAGS: #flattery #ingratiation #deference #pleasing_superior
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
雄韬伟略 SPOKEN CHUNK

grand strategic vision and great military/business genius

A formal idiom used to describe visionary leadership, often employed humorously or obsequiously in modern speech.

我等 SPOKEN CHUNK

we / us (humble and archaic plural pronoun)

Common in historical dramas and stylized formal language when addressing a superior.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Generation to Generation》 S1·E12 (19:18) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus