凡为律者杖八十
“Those who violate the rules are to receive 80 strokes of the cane.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不必
“No need.”
凡 为律 者 杖八十
“Those who violate the rules are to receive 80 strokes of the cane.”
你听说过苗疆的
“Have you heard of Miaojiang's”
“Cross the line, and you'll face brutal punishment.”
One of the five traditional penalties in ancient China (chi, zhang, tu, liu, si), involving flogging the convict's buttocks, back, or legs with a wooden rod or large bamboo slat, commonly used as a judicial or imperial punishment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to receive eighty strokes of caning
A common corporal punishment phrasing in period dramas and historical legal contexts, structured as 'zhang (verb: to cane) + count (number of strokes)'.
whoever... / all those who...
A classic conditional pattern in Classical Chinese and formal statutory style, used to define the entire scope of people subject to a rule.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“By law, you should have been executed.”
“By law, he should be executed as a warning to others.”
“The laws of the Great Tang are strict.”
“where whatever you say becomes law.”
“including current laws, morality”
“he'll still be punished according to the law.”