还真以为自己能登上宝座了
“he could ascend to the throne?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那个傀儡
“would that puppet really think”
还真以为 自己 能 登上宝座 了
“he could ascend to the throne?”
十七年前那场浩劫
“The catastrophe 17 years ago”
“What a delusion! A mere puppet like him could never actually become the ruler.”
In imperial China, harboring unearned imperial ambitions (登上宝座) was considered treasonous hubris, frequently ridiculed before being brutally suppressed.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
actually truly believe that... (mistakenly)
An idiomatic phrase used to express incredulity and mock someone for harboring a naive or false assumption.
to ascend the throne
A formal and dramatic collocation used literally for ascending a royal seat or metaphorically for taking top leadership.
Completes the predicate to underscore that the subject has reached an absurd, realized state of delusion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I thought I was one of a kind.”
“Thought she'd met someone who could help her and that she could make it big.”
“They all think they're the chosen ones”
“They really think they are the Heroes of Liangshan.”