多了好多新面孔啊 可不是吗 本以为太后一倒
“So many new faces around. Indeed. We thought when the Empress Dowager fell,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
陈大人早 好 好
“Good morning, Lord Chen. Hello.”
多 了 好多 新面孔 啊 可不是吗 本以为 太 后一倒
“So many new faces around. Indeed. We thought when the Empress Dowager fell,”
咱们就麻烦了
“we'd be in trouble.”
“The regime changed and we are in danger of losing our positions.”
In Chinese bureaucratic history, the fall of a supreme patron like an Empress Dowager inevitably meant massive purges and replacement of incumbent officials with new loyalists.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
new faces / newcomers
Used idiomatically in organizations to refer to newly appointed or unfamiliar members.
tell me about it / exactly / isn't that so
A highly common spoken response used to strongly validate and agree with the interlocutor's observation.
originally thought / had assumed
Signals that reality turned out differently from what was previously anticipated.
Softens the observation and expresses mild surprise.
Used rhetorically in '可不是吗' to invite mutual consensus.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The mistress hadn't even said a word, and she gave me a dirty look instead.”
“how could I ever face the Empress Dowager?”
“I don't know. This is her request.”
“(Lately, Ms. Wen has made new friends.)”
“Please spare me, Empress Dowager!”
“Have you visited the Empress Dowager? Not yet.”