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《The Truth》 S1·E12 (25:31) HSK 4
nǐ zhè bú shì bǎ tā wǎng huǒ kēng lǐ tuī ma

你这不是把她往火坑里推吗

“Aren't you just pushing her into the fire?”

《The Truth》 S1·E12
TIMECODE: 25:31 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nà jiù néng bāng yī bǎ jiù bāng yī bǎ néng bāng yī bǎ jiù bāng yī bǎ

那就能帮一把就帮一把 能帮一把就帮一把

“I thought I should lend a hand where I could. Lend a hand where you could?”

nǐ zhè bú shì bǎ tā wǎng huǒ kēng lǐ tuī ma CURRENT FOCUS

你 这不是 把她 往火坑里推 吗

“Aren't you just pushing her into the fire?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN bù guāng shì xiǎo mān

不光是小嫚

“It's not just Man.”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: CONDEMNING
Tone: ACCUSATORY
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You think you are helping, but you are completely destroying her life.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Moral Accountability in Family/Social Ties

Chinese speakers often invoke stark moral metaphors like 'fire pit' to intervene when they believe someone is coercing a dependent into harm for personal convenience.

INTENT TAGS: #condemnation #warning #reproach #accusation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
往火坑里推 SPOKEN CHUNK

to push someone into a fire pit; to plunge someone into misery

A common idiomatic metaphor used to strongly condemn someone for subjecting another person to severe danger or disaster.

你这不是……吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

aren't you clearly doing...; isn't this practically...

A rhetorical pattern used to point out an obvious, usually negative consequence of the listener's action.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Forms a rhetorical question that sharply intensifies the rebuke.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 4 GRAMMAR
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