并不是真正的作奸犯科之辈
“He was not an unscrupulous criminal.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Wang Shouchang set a fire and took a life. But that was an honest mistake.”
并不是 真 正的 作奸犯科 之辈
“He was not an unscrupulous criminal.”
此等虔心悔过之人 竟遭此等虐杀
“A man who sincerely repented on his wrongs was tortured and killed brutally.”
“He made a grave mistake, but at his core he was not an inherently malicious criminal.”
Traditional Chinese moral and legal philosophy heavily weights the offender's original heart and moral character alongside the actual harm committed.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
commit offenses and violate laws / engage in villainy
A formal four-character idiom used to describe serious criminal misconduct or habitual wrongdoing.
such people / the sort of person
A literary suffix used to categorize people, often carrying a derogatory or dismissive nuance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But it's not an abuse of power.”
“bend the law for personal gain?”
“He's way too scheming”
“It looks like you were covering for her!”
“not how to get rid of the crime,”
“someone like this who refuses to confess,”