陈立也许是在替人顶罪
“Chen Li might have taken the fall for someone else.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们都有猜测
“We all have our guesses.”
陈立也 许是 在 替人顶罪
“Chen Li might have taken the fall for someone else.”
凶手 把作案的细节都告诉了他 然后让他去自首
“The killer could have told him all the details and made him turn himself in.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The act of taking the blame for a powerful patron or loved one is a recurring motif in Chinese crime thrillers and historical legal lore.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to take the fall for someone else / to be a scapegoat
A common legal and colloquial idiom used when an innocent or proxy party confesses to another person's crime.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“there's someone else.”
“It just serves him right!”
“why you've been helping Li Decai cook the books?”
“Chen Lixuan probably just went for a younger guy. Eye candy.”
“My personal mistake”
“Chen Lei is sentimental.”