MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《Pursuit of Jade》 S1·E27 (16:19) HSK 7
suǒ yǐ xuǎn zé yì zhí yǐn mán

所以选择一直隐瞒

“So I chose to keep it secret.”

《Pursuit of Jade》 S1·E27
TIMECODE: 16:19 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN pà shì huì yǐn lái huò duān

“I feared it would bring disaster.”

suǒ yǐ xuǎn zé yì zhí yǐn mán CURRENT FOCUS

所以选择一直 隐瞒

“So I chose to keep it secret.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN wǒ méi guài nǐ dāng shí de yǐn mán

“I don't blame you for hiding it back then.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Historical & Court
Function: JUSTIFYING PAST ACTIONS
Tone: JUSTIFYING
Emotion: DEFENSIVENESS
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I did not deceive you out of malice; I only kept quiet to protect us from disaster.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Concealment for Protection (Shanshe/Protective Secrecy)

In traditional Chinese narrative contexts, keeping secrets is often viewed as a tragic necessity or noble sacrifice to shield loved ones from disaster.

INTENT TAGS: #justification #explanation #self_defense #admission
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
一直隐瞒 SPOKEN CHUNK

to conceal continuously; to keep secret all along

Used when describing withholding the truth deliberately over a long period.

🏮

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
《Pursuit of Jade》 S1·E27 (16:19) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus