既然他们都把对方架在火上烤
“Since they're putting each other over the fire,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是要拿太后开刀了
“is going after the Empress Dowager.”
既然 他们都把对方 架在火上烤
“Since they're putting each other over the fire,”
那本王
“I might as well”
“Since they've backed each other into a corner and neither can back down, this is the perfect chance for me to make my move.”
A core principle in Chinese political strategy where one lets opponents exhaust and embarrass each other before swooping in to claim the ultimate advantage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to roast over an open fire; to put someone in an impossible, agonizing hot seat
A vivid idiomatic metaphor used to describe forcing someone into an unbearable dilemma or extreme public scrutiny.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“but puts me on the hot seat repeatedly.”
“I surrounded them with a ring of bonfires.”
“The two were like dry wood meeting fire,”
“They're kind of on fire right now.”
“Then let's just burn everything down”
“The one that was burned was a corpse to begin with.”