已在汤里下了毒
“He put poison in the soup,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and is afraid that our whole family will be executed if the city falls.”
已在汤里下了毒
“He put poison in the soup,”
“saying he would offer your head to surrender.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In historical and martial contexts, poisoning food or offering a superior's severed head was a desperate act of self-preservation during military collapse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
poisoned / added poison
A classic narrative collocation used to describe poisoning food or drink.