要想让田家立于不败之地
“To make the Tian family invincible,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Once they have power, they bully the weak.”
要想让田家 立于不败之地
“To make the Tian family invincible,”
唯有脱去商贾的名声 把权力牢牢握在自己手里
“we must shed the merchant reputation and hold power firmly in our own hands.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional China, merchants occupied the lowest tier of the four social classes (Shi, Nong, Gong, Shang); long-term clan survival required shedding merchant identity in favor of official political authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if one wishes to / in order to
Used at the start of a sentence to introduce a major goal before presenting the required method.
to place oneself in an invincible position
An idiomatic four-character expression commonly used in strategic, competitive, or military contexts.
