还是我不该以查案之名 将罪犯绳之以法？
“or use an investigation to bring you to justice?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“or discover you were behind the palace lantern case,”
还 是我 不该 以查案之名 将罪犯 绳之以法 ？
“or use an investigation to bring you to justice?”
自作聪明
“You think you're clever, huh?”
“Are you really daring to criticize me for upholding the law, or are you just protecting the guilty?”
A central archetype in Chinese narrative is the upright investigator who risks his life enforcing justice against well-connected political factions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the name of / under the pretext of
A formal pattern indicating the justification or banner under which an action is carried out.
bring to justice / punish according to law
A prestigious idiom frequently used in legal contexts and detective dramas to describe convicting a lawbreaker.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We're investigating a case. Be serious.”
“So while we investigate the case, we must be extremely careful”
“Tracking the killer isn't my area of expertise.”
“to solve a case, you got yourself hurt so badly again.”
“I think I've made some progress on the case we're investigating.”
“Conviction is not my job.”