那毒是奴婢下的
“I administered the poison,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“why do you care if she is alright or not?”
那毒 是奴婢下的
“I administered the poison,”
但奴婢不想她死 那你还 卫瑛
“but I didn't want her to die. -Then why... -Wei Ying.”
“Yes, I did it—there's no point in asking further.”
The 'shi... de' construction shifts communicative focus to the actor or circumstance of an already completed event, here pinning down sole culpability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
administer poison; put poison into something
A common dramatic collocation where '下' functions as the action verb meaning 'to put/administer'.
Part of the '是……的' emphatic structure, emphasizing the agent who carried out the poisoning.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Did you poison her?”
“I truly don't know.”
“Then I'll truly be left with no hope.”
“have any improper contact with me?”
“I lost control in the moment of urgency.”
“yet he would have to be a servant for life.”