皇帝也会有几个穷亲戚
“Even a king has some poor relatives.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
百口难辩
“how to prove my innocence.”
皇帝也会有几个穷亲戚
“Even a king has some poor relatives.”
你在旧厂街 那种地方长大 难免有认识几个坏朋友
“You grew up on Old Factory Street. It's inevitable that you made some bad friends.”
“Do not beat yourself up over this; everyone has undesirable connections they cannot avoid.”
Traditional Chinese culture acknowledges that family and native-place ties cannot be easily severed, meaning one is not entirely blamed for the misdeeds of childhood acquaintances.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
poor relatives; underprivileged family connections
Used idiomatically to refer to undesirable, lower-status, or troublesome relatives or associations.
even an emperor would have...
A rhetorical device invoking the highest authority to show that a flaw or circumstance is universally unavoidable.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Even an emperor wasn't reliable.”
“The court's human relationships are intricate.”
“How are you a royal?”
“but you can't meet your poor relatives again.”
“As the emperor, one must be capable.”
“were rich kids with strings to pull.”