三法司如今连我都要监视了
“Has the Three Judicial Offices begun spying on me as well?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么
“What?”
三法司 如今 连我都 要 监视 了
“Has the Three Judicial Offices begun spying on me as well?”
大将军误会了
“You misunderstand, General.”
“How dare you lowly investigators tail me? Know your place!”
In imperial China, high-ranking military commanders expected legal deference and took direct surveillance by civilian courts as a grave insult to their honor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
nowadays; at this point
Sets up a contrast between past conventions and an alarming present development.
even... goes so far as to...
An emphatic construction expressing extreme boundary-pushing or outrage at an escalation.
Indicates a newly emerged intolerable state of affairs that provokes outrage.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the Three Judicial Offices will provide an explanation.”
“the Three Judicial Offices can submit it afterward.”
“The area outside the Three Judicial Offices has been wrecked again.”
“(The Three Judicial Offices were thrust straight into the eye of the storm.)”
“that the Three Judicial Offices proceed with such caution.”
“(The workload of the Three Judicial Offices is endless,)”