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《COURT!》 S1·E19 (24:00) HSK 4
dà gài liǎng sān diǎn de yàng zi

大概两三点的样子

“About two or three in the afternoon.”

《COURT!》 S1·E19
TIMECODE: 24:00 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN jǐ diǎn

几点

“What time?”

dà gài liǎng sān diǎn de yàng zi CURRENT FOCUS

大概 两三点的样子

“About two or three in the afternoon.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN hǎo le wǒ jì xià lái le

好了 我记下来了

“All right. I've marked it down.”

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Scene: Legal & Police
Function: GIVING ESTIMATE
Tone: COOPERATIVE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)

Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.

💡 Cultural Insight: Approximation in Spoken Chinese

Chinese speakers often soften time statements using both adverbs and sentence-final markers together to avoid sounding overly definitive when recollecting past events.

INTENT TAGS: #estimation #clarification #reporting #cooperation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
大概两三点 SPOKEN CHUNK

roughly around two or three o'clock

A natural way to combine an approximation adverb with adjacent numbers to express a rough time frame.

……的样子 SPOKEN CHUNK

around... / roughly...

Placed at the end of a clause or phrase to indicate an estimation or approximate state.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 3 GRAMMAR
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