MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E37 (15:37) HSK 4
zhè liǎng tiān wǒ gěi tā fā xìn xī tā huí fù dé dōu bù tài jí shí

这两天我给他发信息 他回复得都不太及时

“I've been texting him these past couple of days, and he hasn't been responding very quickly.”

《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E37
TIMECODE: 15:37 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shì a

是啊

“Yeah.”

zhè liǎng tiān wǒ gěi tā fā xìn xī tā huí fù dé dōu bù tài jí shí CURRENT FOCUS

这两天我给他 发信息 他回复得都不太及时

“I've been texting him these past couple of days, and he hasn't been responding very quickly.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ yě bù zhī dào tā zài máng xiē shén me

“I don't know what he's been busy with.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Social & Dating
Function: VOICING CONCERN
Tone: TROUBLED
Emotion: ANXIETY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“He is avoiding me or hiding something, and it makes me uneasy.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Indirect Grievance Expression

Chinese speakers often soften complaints using soft qualifiers like 'not too prompt' rather than blunt criticism like 'ignoring me'.

INTENT TAGS: #complaining #probing #anxiety #relationship_assessment
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
这两天 SPOKEN CHUNK

the past few days / these couple of days

A common spoken time marker indicating a recent short period.

不太及时 SPOKEN CHUNK

not very promptly / delayed

A polite, indirect way to criticize someone's tardiness in replying or completing a task.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E37 (15:37) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus