不出意外的话 挨了这三十下板子
“Unless I'm mistaken, after those thirty strikes,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不出意外 的话 挨了这三十下板子
“Unless I'm mistaken, after those thirty strikes,”
叶限明日就能出宫了
“Ye Xian will be able to leave tomorrow.”
“Taking this beating is just the price that must be paid to get him out of this dangerous place.”
In imperial China, resigning from palace service without offending the monarch was difficult, often requiring minor offenses and corporal punishment to be dismissed gracefully.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if all goes as expected, barring any accidents
A standard spoken idiom for qualifying a prediction with reasonable confidence.
to take a beating with a wooden paddle (corporal punishment)
Traditionally refers to imperial caning, but metaphorically used in modern Chinese to mean facing disciplinary punishment or severe criticism.