莫不是想借你之手除掉此人
“because she tried to use you to get rid of him?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
王妃雇他
“Did Her Highness hire him”
莫不是 想 借你之手 除掉此人
“because she tried to use you to get rid of him?”
“Truly killing two birds with one stone.”
“You are being manipulated into doing someone else's dirty work.”
A classic stratagem from Chinese military lore where a schemer orchestrates matters so an unwitting third party eliminates their enemy for them.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
using your hand; via your agency
A literary and formal idiom-like collocation used when one party manipulates another to do dirty work.
could it be that; perhaps
Used in formal or period speech to introduce a strong, often alarming rhetorical speculation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He just wanted to use you.”
“She just wanted to repay when she owed him,”
“So you need to borrow my men”
“You just want to use me”
“to unite against him.”
“That was also meant to frame you?”