不至于栽赃陷害
“and he wouldn't stoop to framing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
公输仰是个直臣
“Gongshu Yang is an upright minister,”
不至于 栽赃陷害
“and he wouldn't stoop to framing.”
当务之急
“The important matter now”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Confucian statecraft deeply venerates the 'Zhichen' (blunt, upright minister), who speaks truth to power and is considered morally incapable of petty deceit.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not likely to go so far as; won't lead to
Commonly used in spoken and formal Chinese to downplay an extreme scenario or rule out improbable behavior.
to frame; to plant evidence and trump up charges
A fixed four-character idiom describing deliberate deceit to falsely implicate someone in a crime.
