这样他一不能自杀 二不能逃跑
“This way, he can't commit suicide or run away,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
县主 男女授受不亲 这般 真的可以吗？
“Your Ladyship, is it really proper for you to be around him now?”
这样 他一 不能 自杀 二 不能 逃跑
“This way, he can't commit suicide or run away,”
“and we don't have to deal with the smell. Isn't that perfect?”
“Stop worrying about old-fashioned propriety; practicality matters more right now.”
The speaker challenges the rigid Confucian norm of physical separation between unrelated men and women in favor of immediate practical expediency.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
firstly cannot..., secondly cannot...
A highly useful spoken pattern to list consecutive constraints or rationale.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Even if he flees, he won't survive.”
“Even if he flees, he won't survive.”
“then wouldn't he be unable even to kill himself?”
“How could you let him escape?”
“If he was planning to kill himself, he wouldn't let me do that.”
“We absolutely must not let him escape.”