可怎么才算尽力了呢？
“But what counts as doing one's best?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
淑妃说圣上尽力了
“Consort Shu said His Majesty "did his best".”
可 怎么才算尽力 了呢？
“But what counts as doing one's best?”
太史丞不必同情我
“Please don't pity me.”
“Claiming he did his best is just a convenient excuse to abandon me.”
In court culture, claiming the monarch 'tried his best' often serves as a polite euphemism to conceal calculated political sacrifice or imperial indifference.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only then counts as; can truly be considered
Used to challenge or establish the strict criteria required for something to genuinely qualify as a certain status or deed.
did one's best; tried one's utmost
Often used to acknowledge effort despite failure, or sarcastically to question if adequate effort was truly made.
Ends the rhetorical question to deepen the reflective, brooding, and unresolved nature of the dilemma.
