估计连 他长什么样都不清楚
“he likely doesn't even know what the man looks like.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
吴侍郎刚到任不久 顾德昭 区区一个仓储郎中
“Vice Minister Wu has only recently taken up his post. Gu Dezhao is a mere storehouse director—”
估计 连 他 长什么样 都不清楚
“he likely doesn't even know what the man looks like.”
还不如叫御史弹劾 就说他家风不正 宠妾灭妻
“Better to have the censors impeach him— cite his corrupt household morals favoring the concubine over the wife.”
“They don't even know each other, so that plan will never work.”
In imperial bureaucracy, wide gaps in rank meant lower officials had virtually no direct contact or recognition from high-ranking superiors.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
probably / I reckon
A very common conversational marker used to introduce an educated guess or assessment.
not even...
A grammatical pattern used to emphasize an extreme example to underline an impossibility or deficiency.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Looking at him, they might think we are having a celebratory feast.”
“You don't know how cute he was.”
“But I've never known what Tiecheng looks like.”
“yet even he doesn't know where you came from.”
“I can hardly recall his face,”