我为宫中时气心急是真的
“I'm anxious about the epidemic here. That's true.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
比他们多一些偏爱罢了
“more room to act than others have.”
我为宫中时气 心急 是真的
“I'm anxious about the epidemic here. That's true.”
“I wanted to help Pei Yu prove the prescription. That's true too.”
“Even if I favored someone, my primary goal was truly to save lives.”
In Confucian governance, actions motivated by personal affection (偏爱) are suspect unless strongly grounded in genuine devotion to the public good (公).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
my anxiety is genuine / really feeling anxious
A structure ('X是真的') used to vehemently defend the sincerity of one's feelings against accusations.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The epidemic has improved a lot.”
“The epidemic can't be contained.”
“You were afraid someone would find out,”
“the palace treats me much differently now.”
“But those rumors circulated only among the eunuchs and palace maids.”
“The whole palace is buzzing with gossip,”