一个劲地替她那赌鬼父亲求情
“begging nonstop for her gambler father.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“stayed at the palace gate and refused to leave,”
一个劲地 替她那 赌鬼 父亲 求情
“begging nonstop for her gambler father.”
陛下一气之下
“In a fit of anger, His Majesty”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In imperial China, a family member's vices or crimes could instantly drag down royal consorts, whose desperate attempts to intercede often risked imperial wrath.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
persistently; relentlessly; continuously doing something without stopping
Useful adverbial phrase to emphasize someone obsessively repeating an action, often with mild annoyance.
to plead for mercy; to intercede for someone
Common collocation used when asking someone in power to pardon someone else.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She's the one who killed him. Don't you want revenge for him?”
“You'll never avenge your father.”
“She wants to seek justice for her father.”
“exonerate her husband.”
“and then myself as an apology to my parents!”
“causing my father to suffer unjust accusations?"”