她有功无罪呀
“She did nothing wrong!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
却反而坐牢
“but she was put in jail.”
她 有功 无罪呀
“She did nothing wrong!”
是啊
“Exactly!”
“She deserves a reward, not prison! How can you lock up an innocent hero?”
Traditional Chinese moral and legal systems place great weight on balancing merits (功) against transgressions (过/罪); punishing someone with pure merit violates moral cosmic justice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
deserving credit rather than blame; innocent and meritorious
A formal four-character antithetical expression used when defending someone who did a good deed but is facing punishment.
Softens the blunt statement while simultaneously adding emotional urgency and an earnest plea for common sense.