若是此毒成瘾的效果
“If this poison is even more addictive”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
所以贞观年间才将此物禁了
“That is why it was banned during the Zhenguan era.”
若是 此毒成瘾 的 效果
“If this poison is even more addictive”
比五石散更大
“than Five-Stone Dust,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
A notorious psychoactive mineral drug popular during the Wei-Jin period that caused widespread addiction and societal decay before subsequent imperial prohibitions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if; supposing that
A formal conditional conjunction equivalent to '如果', common in written and period Chinese.
addictive effect; addictive property
Collocation used to describe how habit-forming a substance or narcotic is.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Perhaps it will cure your poison.”
“And once the drug is cut off,”
“Is this poison curable? My medicine will keep her alive,”
“I think it was a drug overdose.”
“He ingested a poison instead.”
“Cultivating insects inside a human body”