可是她说得清清楚楚
“But she made it very clear.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
此等物件岂是我们这种人可以有的？
“This is priceless. How could I have gotten my hands on something like this?”
可是 她 说得清清楚楚
“But she made it very clear.”
是掖庭局监作胡达 托人送给她的定情之物
“It was Hu Da from the Palace Registry Bureau who asked someone to give her this as a token of affection.”
“I'm not speculating here — she told me exactly where it came from, so stop dismissing it.”
In imperial households, servants owning fine objects immediately raised suspicions of theft or an illicit affair. The first speaker's disbelief reflects this rigid class logic, which the current speaker is trying to overturn with testimony.
The Yeting Bureau administered palace maids and servants, and relationships among palace staff were strictly policed. A love token from a bureau supervisor was therefore both precious and dangerous evidence of a hidden romance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
but, however, yet
Use at the start of a sentence to signal a direct contradiction of what was just said; slightly more emphatic than the plain 'but' in casual speech.
to say something crystal-clearly, state it in unmistakable detail
English speakers should copy the pattern verb + de + reduplicated four-character adverb (qing qing chu chu) to stress HOW an action was done; ideal when vouching for the reliability of someone's words.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She made it very clear to me.”
“How would I know what she said?”
“Whenever we mention it, she says she knows”
“Didn't she just state it clearly?”