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《The Silent Rift》 S1·E7 (32:23) HSK 7
mèng guǎng cái zū nǐ men pù miàn zuò shēng yì de shí hòu

孟广才租你们铺面做生意的时候

“Back in 1995, When Meng Guangcai rented your shop to run his business,”

《The Silent Rift》 S1·E7
TIMECODE: 32:23 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN yī jiǔ jiǔ wǔ nián

一九九五年

“Back in 1995, When Meng Guangcai rented your shop to run his business,”

mèng guǎng cái zū nǐ men pù miàn zuò shēng yì de shí hòu CURRENT FOCUS

孟广才租你们铺面做生意的时候

“Back in 1995, When Meng Guangcai rented your shop to run his business,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN tā de jī běn qíng kuàng

他的基本情况

“what were his basic circumstances?”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: INVESTIGATING AND QUESTIONING
Tone: OBJECTIVE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: pumian (streetfront shop)

Common street-level commercial or mixed-use storefront properties in Chinese towns and cities, typically on the ground floor facing the street for doing business; frequently referenced in leasing investigations and commercial contexts.

INTENT TAGS: #investigation and evidence gathering #background inquiry #fact checking
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

3 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
铺面 SPOKEN CHUNK

street-facing shopfront; commercial storefront

Commonly used in spoken Chinese and commercial leasing to refer to ground-floor streetfront premises used to run a business.

做生意 SPOKEN CHUNK

to do business; to engage in trade

An extremely common everyday expression meaning to run a shop, manage a business, or work as an independent merchant.

……的时候 SPOKEN CHUNK

when...; during the time that...

A standard temporal marker placed after a verb phrase or clause to establish the time frame when an action or situation occurred.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 6 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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