你们李家出了家贼
“Your Li family has a traitor within.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还是让武安侯和樊长玉躲过一劫
“that the Marquis of Wu'an and Fan Changyu escaped.”
你们李家出了 家贼
“Your Li family has a traitor within.”
“This failure is entirely your family's fault, and you must deal with your traitor immediately.”
In traditional Chinese society, an insider traitor dishonors the entire clan, giving external allies powerful leverage to assign moral and political blame.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
traitor within the family or clan / insider threat
A strong idiom/term referring to someone who betrays their own family, clan, or organization from the inside.
has produced / gave rise to
Commonly combined with nouns denoting remarkable people or troublemakers to state an emergence from a group.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Haven't you been kicked out by the Li family? You're no better than a stray dog.”
“Our Li family can lose anything,”
“The crimes our Li family committed are utterly unforgivable.”
“you went to the prefectural office to report the Li family, didn't you? So what if I did?”
“In the Li family, besides you, who else can I find?”
“and I must give the Li family an explanation.”