她与人私通 怀下了野种
“She slept with someone else and got pregnant with a bastard.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“So who can prove her child was His Majesty's?”
她与人私通 怀下了 野种
“She slept with someone else and got pregnant with a bastard.”
“She used Zheng's soft heart to try to flee the palace.”
“We can easily frame her for adultery and destroy her completely.”
In imperial China, an adulterous pregnancy in the palace was high treason (大逆不道), carrying the death penalty for an entire clan.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to commit adultery with someone
A serious, formal accusation of illicit sexual relations often heard in historical and legal contexts.
to conceive an illegitimate child / bastard
A highly derogatory and vulgar insult directed at an illegitimate pregnancy.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“she carried in her belly?”
“that he would secretly meet with a woman,”
“Xiang must have eloped with Young Master Bai.”
“it won't be too long until she goes astray.”
“Am I just a bastard you took in?”
“Since they have their motives, we can't lose either.”