百般思量之下
“(After weighing every option,)”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
备受折磨
“(enduring torment.)”
百般思量 之 下
“(After weighing every option,)”
只能将冷月送到景翊身边
“(the only choice left was to send Leng Yue to Jing Yi's side)”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese storytelling, introducing an action with 'after considering every angle' signals to the listener that the forthcoming compromise was an agonizing, inevitable last resort rather than a callous act.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
pondering over something in a hundred different ways; weighing every option
A literary set phrase used to emphasize that a conclusion was not reached lightly, but after agonizing deliberation.
under the circumstance of; following (a stated situation)
A formal grammatical construction used as a prepositional phrase to connect an antecedent condition to the consequent action.
