他当了数十年的傀儡
“He has been a puppet for decades.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他也不敢说
“he wouldn't dare to say it.”
他当了数十年的 傀儡
“He has been a puppet for decades.”
“Do not count on him to stand up; his spine was broken decades ago.”
Throughout Chinese history, powerful court ministers often installed young or weak emperors as figureheads while retaining real governing power behind the scenes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
several decades
A literary and formal way to emphasize a protracted length of time.
puppet; figurehead
Used metaphorically to describe someone who holds nominal authority but is manipulated by others.
Marks the completion of an action or duration of a state that has lasted up to the present.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I am a puppet,”
“will never endure being a puppet for a lifetime.”
“Being a puppet without even realizing it—”
“Do you want to be a puppet emperor forever?”
“yet we have become puppets despised by thousands.”
“He's always been so pretentious.”