县主究竟如何得知的？
“Then how did Your Ladyship know?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's His Majesty's decree. How could I have been involved?”
县主 究竟 如何得知 的？
“Then how did Your Ladyship know?”
得知什么？
“Know what?”
“You should not possess this classified information; who leaked it to you?”
Imperial decrees and inner palace politics were strictly guarded, making leaks of information dangerous and worthy of serious interrogation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
after all; on earth; actually
Used in interrogative sentences to strengthen the speaker's urgency or desire for an exact truth.
how did (one) come to know
A polite and grammatically standard formula using the 'shi...de' construction to inquire about information sources.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But why did you come here, Your Ladyship?”
“how did Your Ladyship find the evidence pointing straight to the Fifteenth Princess?”