但却捧杀不得
“but you can never bring her down.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
淑妃你们捧得
“You can put Consort Shu on a pedestal,”
但却 捧杀 不得
“but you can never bring her down.”
想借此
“Trying to use this”
“Do not get reckless; trying to destroy her through false flattery will blow up in our faces.”
A Machiavellian political tactic in Chinese culture where an opponent is intentionally lavished with insincere praise to inflate their arrogance and provoke their downfall.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to ruin someone through excessive praise or over-flattering
A classic Chinese strategic idiom referring to inflating someone's ego until they become vulnerable and fall.
must not / cannot be allowed to
Used as a formal suffix indicating prohibition or severe inadvisability.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“can bring death to people.”
“- It's fine. - No, we can't just sit around and wait.”
“Blabla... can no longer live in shame.”
“But we can't just let those scoundrels get away with it.”
“are really so annoying.”
“you couldn't stop yourself.”