也就是个寻衅滋事而已
“It's just a charge of disorderly conduct.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他腿被打折
“his leg was broken.”
也就是个 寻衅滋事 而已
“It's just a charge of disorderly conduct.”
对你我一切的指控
“All the accusations against us”
“Don't panic, the police won't charge us with anything too serious.”
'Xunxin zishi' is famously broad in Chinese penal law; speakers often invoke it colloquially to dismiss a violent altercation as minor disorder.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
nothing more than... / merely...
A pattern used to minimize or downplay the importance or severity of an issue.
picking quarrels and provoking trouble
A well-known criminal charge in Chinese legal terminology, often colloquially cited to describe disorderly conduct or brawls.
Functions as a sentence-final limiter meaning 'that is all' or 'merely', reinforcing the speaker's minimization.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They just classified it as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."”
“and stir up trouble through this”
“This is just a case of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble". Let's record the statement and hand him to the police station.”