官爷今日必踏平静心斋 灭你骆家满门
“The officers will raze this place to the ground and wipe out your entire family!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们得好好活着才行
“They'd better stay alive long enough.”
官爷今日必踏平静心斋 灭你骆家满门
“The officers will raze this place to the ground and wipe out your entire family!”
少爷
“Young Master!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In imperial Chinese history and martial arts fiction, wiping out an entire lineage was a severe punishment intended to eliminate any future possibility of revenge.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to exterminate your entire clan
A dramatic historical trope used in period fiction denoting collective familial extermination.
to flatten, to trample into ruins
Used metaphorically or literally to describe crushing and razing a stronghold or place completely.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Sir, you must be joking.”
“In the Luo family, the Eldest Young Master's word is the rule.”
“If you are interested,”
“[Luo's Mansion in the Capital] I need to see Old Master Luo for something urgent! Please come in!”
“If the Luo family doesn't take it, who will?”
“don't ever come back to the Luo family.”