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The word "罢了" is formed through the conceptual fusion of two characters: "罢", which carries the core meaning of stopping or ceasing an action, and "了", which marks a sense of completion or finality. When combined, they move beyond their literal meanings to create a single expressive unit that conceptually "waves something away" or marks a matter as concluded for the purpose of the conversation. It forms not through grammatical rules, but through a rhetorical and pragmatic evolution, where the idea of "stopping it there" transforms into a spoken gesture of understatement, dismissal, or limiting the scope of what has been said, embodying a tone of resignation or downplaying.
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他只是累了罢了。
我不过是想帮忙罢了。
她这么说罢了,你别当真。
如果你不想去,不去罢了。
虽然他说得严重,但不过是小事罢了。