不就是怀了一个孩儿吗
“So what if she is miscarrying?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Your Highness, Madam Qin has miscarried. Qin Xiang is merely a concubine.”
不就是 怀了一个孩儿 吗
“So what if she is miscarrying?”
请什么太医
“Why call for a royal physician?”
“She is just a lowly concubine; her pregnancy isn't worth our attention.”
In historical aristocratic households, the principal wife held supreme authority over concubines, whose well-being and offspring were often treated with cold political calculation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't it just / nothing more than
Used to belittle or downplay the importance of something someone else makes a fuss about.
became pregnant with a child
A spoken phrasing for conceiving a child, often used in domestic or historical dramas.
Forms a rhetorical question that reinforces the speaker's contemptuous and dismissive attitude.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't tell me you're carrying his child.”
“to make us discover her pregnancy?”
“she was still pregnant with”
“Since we aren't even expecting yet,”
“I fear I was born with it.”
“got pregnant out of wedlock.”