年少时 因家中获罪
“When I was little, my family got convicted, and I was sent to the palace as a eunuch.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I was born the son of a military officer.”
年少时 因 家中获罪
“When I was little, my family got convicted, and I was sent to the palace as a eunuch.”
“my family got convicted, and I was sent to the palace as a eunuch.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In imperial China, an official's crime often resulted in collective punishment, stripping family members of status or forcing sons into court servitude.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in one's youth / when young
A literary and formal temporal phrase used when recounting past personal history.
to commit a crime / to incur blame or punishment
A classical/formal expression commonly used in historical contexts when referring to ancestral punishment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He was wilder than me back when he was young.”
“(He was wilder than me back when he was young.)”
“find someone while I'm”