属下实在是没法子了 这才求的顾姑娘
“I really had no other way, so I asked Miss Gu for help.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
世子爷让夫人禁足了 在府里出不来
“His Highness has been confined by Madam. He can't leave the mansion.”
属下 实在是 没法子了 这才求的顾姑娘
“I really had no other way, so I asked Miss Gu for help.”
姑娘 姑娘
“My Lady! My Lady!”
“I know it is improper for me to bother you, but you are the only one who can save my master.”
Retainers in traditional China strictly observed hierarchy; approaching an outside unmarried lady was an extreme breach tolerated only in life-or-death emergencies.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
truly; genuinely
Use this adverb to emphasize sincere constraints, helplessness, or earnestness before an explanation.
at one's wits' end; out of options
A highly colloquial, idiomatic way to express having exhausted all alternative solutions.
only then; thus
Marks a consequential action that occurred only after a specific threshold of difficulty was crossed.
Denotes a newly reached state of having run completely out of alternatives.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“To me, it sounds like they are planning to propose.”
“I really can't help but ask.”
“is Miss Gu still mad at you?”
“to like a Gu girl, would you?”
“He said they were not enough to repay you for saving Miss Gu,”
“I know I shouldn't speak out of turn.”