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《Ashes to Crown》 S1·E10 (02:23) HSK 4
nǐ dāng lǎo zi dài de sān bǎi chǔ jiā jūn shì chī gān fàn de ?

你当老子带的三百楚家军 是吃干饭的?

“Do you think the 300 soldiers I brought along are good for nothing?”

《Ashes to Crown》 S1·E10
TIMECODE: 02:23 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shuò mò jīng jūn a ? zhè … zhàng hái méi dǎ shuō shén me sàng qì huà ?

朔漠精军啊?这… 仗还没打 说什么丧气话?

“How can we defeat 3,000 elite troops from the Northern Desert? The battle hasn't even begun. Stop spoiling the morale.”

nǐ dāng lǎo zi dài de sān bǎi chǔ jiā jūn shì chī gān fàn de ? CURRENT FOCUS

你当 老子 带的三百楚家军 是 吃干饭的 ?

“Do you think the 300 soldiers I brought along are good for nothing?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ men wàng chéng duǒ zài yún zhōng jùn bèi hòu guò guàn le shū fú rì zi

你们望城躲在云中郡背后 过惯了舒服日子

“Wangcheng, sheltered by Yunzhong Prefecture, has grown soft.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: ASSERTING COMPETENCE
Tone: DEFIANT
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't you dare insult my soldiers' fighting strength—we are lethal.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Laozi (Self-aggrandizing Pronoun)

Using '老子' (literally 'your father') elevates the speaker while intentionally patronizing and dominating the conversational partner in masculine or martial settings.

INTENT TAGS: #defiance #rebuttal #boasting #challenging
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
吃干饭的 SPOKEN CHUNK

good-for-nothing; useless; freeloading

A highly colloquial, derogatory idiom used mostly in rhetorical negative questions to defend someone's competence.

你当 SPOKEN CHUNK

do you really assume / think that...

Used to challenge someone's false assumption or slight in an aggressive or confrontational tone.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
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