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《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E11 (20:30) HSK 7
màn tiān yào jià jiù dì huán qián ma wǒ méi tīng dǒng

漫天要价 就地还钱嘛 我没听懂

“Ask high, bargain down later. I missed that.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E11
TIMECODE: 20:30 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN chū zì lǔ xùn xiān shēng 《 wú shēng de zhōng guó 》 duì jiù shì zhè yì si

出自鲁迅先生 《无声的中国》 对 就是这意思

“From Lu Xun's "The Silent China". Right, that's it.”

màn tiān yào jià jiù dì huán qián ma wǒ méi tīng dǒng CURRENT FOCUS

漫天要价 就地还钱 嘛 我没听懂

“Ask high, bargain down later. I missed that.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ men tīng dǒng le ma

你们听懂了吗

“Did you?”

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Scene: Business & Trade
Function: CLARIFYING
Tone: INQUIRING
Emotion: CONFUSION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I know you are talking about opening with an outrageous offer, but what does that really mean for us?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Bargaining Psychology (Huanjia)

The idiom pair '漫天要价,就地还钱' encapsulates traditional marketplace bargaining, where extreme starting positions are expected and accepted as normal negotiation theater.

INTENT TAGS: #negotiation #clarification #idiom #feigning_ignorance
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

3 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
漫天要价 SPOKEN CHUNK

to ask an exorbitant price / start with an astronomical demand

Widely used in commercial bargaining or interpersonal negotiations to describe extreme opening bids.

就地还钱 SPOKEN CHUNK

to counteroffer on the spot / bargain down aggressively

Often paired with 漫天要价 to describe the standard back-and-forth haggling process.

我没听懂 SPOKEN CHUNK

I didn't understand / I didn't catch that

Standard polite phrase to signal confusion and invite the listener to elaborate.

Modal Particle「嘛」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the preceding idiom as an obvious, self-evident truth or common consensus.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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