不会真的是石青吧
“Could it really have been Shi Qing?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
宫女
“A palace maid.”
不会真的 是 石青 吧
“Could it really have been Shi Qing?”
她可是慧妃的大宫女啊
“She was Consort Hui's chief palace maid.”
“If it is really her, this scandal will implicate Consort Hui and put us all in danger.”
Senior palace maids were extensions of their consorts; implicating a chief maid directly threatened the consort's political standing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could it really be...?; surely it isn't...?
Used in spoken Chinese to express dread or disbelief when a suspected unfavorable outcome seems likely.
Softens the rhetorical question and expresses lingering uncertainty mixed with hope that the guess is wrong.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Do you really want to watch Shi Qing die?”
“Did Shi Qing have any grudge”
“that I ended up as dark as a bottle of it.”
“You didn't poison it, did you?”
“Miss Shi Qing couldn't stand it and said she would seek justice for us,”
“She's black and blue all over. Yes, yes.”