《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E18 (14:11)
HSK 5
wǒ men jiā yuè lái yuè qióng le
我们家越来越穷了
“our family's just getting poorer and poorer”
《Born to Be Alive》
S1·E18
TIMECODE: 14:11
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
zì cóng nǐ dāng le zhè ge fù xiàn zhǎng
自从你 当了这个副县长
“Ever since you became the Deputy County Mayor,”
wǒ men jiā yuè lái yuè qióng le
CURRENT FOCUS
我们家 越来越穷 了
“our family's just getting poorer and poorer”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
zài zhè yàng xià qù
再这样下去
“If this goes on,”
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Scene:
Family & Home
Function:
COMPLAINING
Tone:
RESENTFUL
Emotion:
FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Your high-status job is ruining us financially, and I am sick of sacrificing.”
💡 Cultural Insight: The Burden of Clean Governance (清官难做与家庭牺牲)
In contemporary China, honest public officials earn modest fixed salaries while bearing high social expectations, which often creates severe domestic friction over family prosperity.
INTENT TAGS:
#complaint
#grievance
#blaming
#venting
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
越来越
SPOKEN CHUNK
more and more; increasingly
Placed directly before an adjective or psychological verb to show a progressive change in degree.
Modal Particle「了」 (le)
CHANGE OF STATE
Functions as a sentence-final change-of-state marker, emphasizing the transition into a state of financial poverty.
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1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
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