你方才不是说要去见武安侯吗
“Didn't you say you had to check on the Marquis of Wu'an?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那麻烦本宫了
“Thank you, Beholden.”
你方才 不是说要 去见 武安侯吗
“Didn't you say you had to check on the Marquis of Wu'an?”
赶紧去吧
“You should go now.”
“You have business elsewhere, so stop lingering and leave now.”
In traditional elite Chinese communication, superiors or hosts rarely command visitors to leave directly; instead, they mention the guest's other duties to prompt an exit gracefully.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
didn't you just say
A polite, indirect way to remind someone of an inconsistency or nudge them toward an exit.
Forms a rhetorical question to prompt action rather than simply elicit factual confirmation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Let's go meet this Marquis of Wu'an.”
“If the Marquis of Wu'an saw this,”
“Hurry up and pay your respects to the Marquis of Wu'an!”
“I only want to ask the Marquis of Wu'an for one thing.”
“why did he speak up for the Marquis of Wu'an? [Northwest Inn]”
“We are Marquis of Wu'an's soldiers now.”