你们不知低三下四 求了我多少回
“you came crawling to me time and time again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
从前侯府得势
“When the Marquis household was in power,”
你们 不知 低三下四 求了我多少回
“you came crawling to me time and time again.”
如今侯府有难
“Now that we're in trouble,”
“Do not pretend you are superior; you begged me countless times when you needed me.”
In traditional aristocratic clans, personal loyalty was measured by reciprocal obligations during times of decline or political crisis.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
humble oneself; servile; groveling
A vivid four-character idiom used to describe lowering one's dignity or status to plead for help.
countless times; more times than one can count
A rhetorical construction used to emphasize an exceedingly high frequency of past actions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Lower prices—seventy-thirty in my favor.”
“just throw in the towel and relinquish this project?”
“back then, I had begged you for so long,”
“You don't know how difficult it was to find you in the last few days.”
“We bow and scrape all day...”
“I'm begging you.”