小 小人有眼无珠
“I-I was so blind.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小 小人 有眼无珠
“I-I was so blind.”
“Please spare me, Empress Dowager!”
“Please spare my life; I was an idiot who did not realize whom I was dealing with.”
In traditional imperial Chinese hierarchy, dramatically lowering one's status and professing utter stupidity or blindness was a conventional strategy to evoke pity and escape harsh execution.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having eyes but failing to see; blind to someone's true status or value
A classic self-deprecating idiom used when apologizing profusely to a superior after failing to recognize their importance.
this lowly one; a humble self-reference used by subordinates before superiors in traditional contexts
Used in historical dramas as a deferential first-person pronoun by commoners or lower-ranking individuals.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I saw it clearly.”
“I cannot tell for now.”
“he's such a foolish eunuch.”
“I still have something to say.”
“Roll away the villains.”
“He said I looked almost exactly”