近几日是不是去了三法司
“Have you been to the Three Judicial Offices lately?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我问你
“Let me ask you.”
近几日是不是去了 三法司
“Have you been to the Three Judicial Offices lately?”
是
“Yes.”
“Do not lie to me; I know where you have been.”
The '三法司' constituted the highest tripartite judicial body in imperial China; meddling with it carried immense political peril.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in recent days / lately
A standard temporal marker slightly more formal than '这几天', commonly used in narratives and formal inquiries.
is it true that / did you or didn't you
Placed directly before the predicate to form an affirmative-negative question to demand confirmation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They were taken for questioning.”
“I was happiest”
“I knew that you were busy with work”
“Three Judicial Offices have sorted the details”
“Wasn't there a big case here a while ago?”
“the reason you approached the Three Judicial Offices,”