《Pursuit of Jade》 S1·E13 (15:50)
HSK 7
chí zǎo shì yào zǒu de
迟早是要走的
“he'd leave sooner or later.”
《Pursuit of Jade》
S1·E13
TIMECODE: 15:50
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1080P MASTER AUDIO
THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
tā ya
他呀
“that”
chí zǎo shì yào zǒu de
CURRENT FOCUS
迟早 是要走的
“he'd leave sooner or later.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
wǒ huà lǐ huà wài wèn guò tā hǎo jǐ huí
“I've hinted at it several times,”
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Scene:
Daily Life
Function:
STATING INEVITABILITY
Tone:
PRAGMATIC
Emotion:
RESIGNATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Do not get too attached to him; his departure is inevitable.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Transience and Impermanence
Chinese conversational pragmatics frequently uses pragmatic realism ('迟早') to manage emotional expectations when dealing with inevitable partings.
INTENT TAGS:
#realism
#resignation
#prediction
#cautioning
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2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
迟早
SPOKEN CHUNK
sooner or later
Adverb used to emphasize that something is bound to happen eventually, regardless of delay.
是要……的
SPOKEN CHUNK
bound to; destined to
A common structural frame used to emphasize certainty about an unavoidable outcome.
Modal Particle「的」 (de)
CHANGE OF STATE
Placed at the end of the sentence to assert certainty and confirm the inevitability of the fact.
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1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
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