本宫很是高兴啊
“I'm so delighted.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
更有国师亲临
“Even the Prophet has come.”
本宫 很是 高兴啊
“I'm so delighted.”
大家不必拘束
“Make yourselves at home.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
High-ranking imperial figures explicitly state their happiness to honor guests of high distinction and relieve the natural tension created by court hierarchy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I / This royal person (literally: this palace)
A traditional royal first-person pronoun used by high-ranking imperial concubines, empresses, or occasionally crown princes in period dramas.
very; quite
A formal and elegant intensifier frequently used in written Chinese or classical speech registers instead of the colloquial hen.
Softens the imperial declaration and adds an overt feeling of genuine warmth and magnanimity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Beholden... no.”
“I was a little surprised.”
“I only learned about it today as well.”
“I have to go back and change.”
“I have been busy with affairs lately.”
“come to me anytime.”