MC
MandarinClips Cinema Corpus
《The Tang Mist》 S1·E20 (06:24) HSK 6
nǐ hái bù zhāo ma

你还不招吗

“are you still refusing to confess?”

《The Tang Mist》 S1·E20
TIMECODE: 06:24 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shì dào rú jīn

事到如今

“At this point,”

nǐ hái bù zhāo ma CURRENT FOCUS

你还不招吗

“are you still refusing to confess?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN yuán lái shì nǐ fàng de huǒ

“So you set the fire.”

Subtitles synced to millisecond timecode Browse Show Clips →
Scene: Legal & Police
Function: DEMANDING CONFESSION
Tone: INTERROGATIVE AND AGGRESSIVE
Emotion: ANGER
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You are trapped, so drop the act and confess already.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Leniency for Confession

Chinese judicial culture emphasizes prompt confession as a sign of repentance, making 'demanding a confession' a key trope in criminal confrontations.

INTENT TAGS: #demanding_confession #interrogation #confrontation #pressuring
🧩

LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
还不招 SPOKEN CHUNK

still refuse to confess

Used in interrogations to press someone stubbornly withholding the truth.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Forms a sharp rhetorical question pressing the listener to take immediate action.

🏮

VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 7 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

EXPLORE BY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY
《The Tang Mist》 S1·E20 (06:24) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus