服苦役赎罪的机会
“yourself through hard labor at the Refinement Quarry.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
给你一个在采石场
“granting you the chance to redeem”
服苦役赎罪的机会
“yourself through hard labor at the Refinement Quarry.”
是
“Yes.”
“You ought to be grateful that you are being sentenced to hard labor rather than executed.”
In traditional Chinese dynastic law, hard labor was often framed as an act of merciful imperial benevolence sparing an offender from capital punishment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to serve hard labor; to perform penal servitude
A formal, historical term describing compulsory manual labor assigned as punishment for crimes.
to atone for a crime or sin
Used in formal or dramatic contexts when someone must make up for serious wrongdoing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to make up for your crimes.”
“is a chance to redeem yourself through merit.”
“I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself.”
“Give me a chance to atone.”