MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Love Between Lines》 S1·E26 (05:50) HSK 3
suǒ yǐ jiù tuō rén yào le nǐ de hào mǎ

所以就托人要了你的号码

“so I asked someone for your number.”

《Love Between Lines》 S1·E26
TIMECODE: 05:50 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN bù hǎo yì sī a wǒ shí zài shì yǒu diǎn zháo jí

“Sorry. I'm really anxious,”

suǒ yǐ jiù tuō rén yào le nǐ de hào mǎ CURRENT FOCUS

所以就 托人要 了你的号码

“so I asked someone for your number.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ jiù shì xiǎng wèn wèn xiǎo yǔ gēn nǐ zài yì qǐ ma

“I just want to ask if Zhiyu is with you.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Daily Life
Function: JUSTIFYING BEHAVIOR
Tone: APOLOGETIC
Emotion: ANXIETY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Please do not be alarmed or offended that I got your personal number.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Tuo Ren (Relying on Intermediaries)

In Chinese social networks, asking a mutual acquaintance to pass along contact information is a standard way to reach someone urgently, though it requires polite justification.

INTENT TAGS: #justification #politeness #excusing_intrusion #explanation
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
托人 SPOKEN CHUNK

to ask someone to do a favor / via an intermediary

Use this collocation when you get something done through mutual contacts or personal connections.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Marks the completion of the action of obtaining the phone number.

🏮

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
《Love Between Lines》 S1·E26 (05:50) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus