《The First Jasmine》 S1·E13 (33:08)
HSK 7
nà wáng fēi zhēn shì shà fèi kǔ xīn le
那王妃真是煞费苦心了
“You really went to great lengths.”
《The First Jasmine》
S1·E13
TIMECODE: 33:08
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
wǒ méi bàn fǎ zhǐ dé bī nǐ yī bī
“I had no choice but to push you a little.”
nà wáng fēi zhēn shì shà fèi kǔ xīn le
CURRENT FOCUS
那王妃 真是 煞费苦心 了
“You really went to great lengths.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
ā yáo
阿尧
“Yao, I never intended to harm you.”
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Scene:
Historical & Court
Function:
IRONIC REBUKE
Tone:
SARCASTIC
Emotion:
ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You went through all this scheming just to manipulate me.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Polite Condemnation
In high-status traditional dynamics, direct verbal aggression causes immediate loss of decorum; elite characters frequently weaponize idioms of praise to convey deep contempt.
INTENT TAGS:
#sarcasm
#reproach
#condemnation
#exposure
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
煞费苦心
SPOKEN CHUNK
to take great pains; to rack one's brains
An idiom frequently used in modern and historical contexts, often sarcastically to describe someone's excessive plotting or manipulation.
Modal Particle「了」 (le)
CHANGE OF STATE
Emphasizes the completed culmination of the scheme with an air of finality.
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2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《The First Jasmine》 S1·E13 (33:08) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus