谁护都尉清名啊
“who will protect your reputation?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们走了
“If we leave,”
谁护都尉清名啊
“who will protect your reputation?”
好
“Great!”
“If we leave, your name will be dragged through the mud and no one will stand up for you.”
In traditional Confucian bureaucracy, an upright official valued moral integrity and public honor far more than life itself, making loyalty from subordinates in defending that honor paramount.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
unblemished reputation; clean name
A literary and historical term referring to an official's moral integrity and untarnished record.
commandant; military officer title
A specific historical bureaucratic/military rank used in imperial China.
Softens the rhetorical question while adding an emotional undertone of worry and pleading urgency.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“or slanders Commandant Fan's reputation,”
“is a meritorious protector they're expecting.”
“[Yin] We have our people within the Imperial Guard.”
“Isn't this Wei Cheng, the Song Mansion's guard captain?”
“Why is he still entangled with Commandant Fan?”
“isn't Commandant Fan, is she?”