我觉得凶多吉少
“I fear the worst for him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
本来说好和使团一同归来 如今却被留在了墕国
“He was supposed to return with the envoy delegation, yet now he's been kept in Yan State.”
我觉得 凶多吉少
“I fear the worst for him.”
“And His Majesty, fully aware that the Yan people came with ill intent,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
'Ji' (auspicious) and 'Xiong' (inauspicious) stem from ancient Chinese divination systems and remain ubiquitous idiomatic shorthand for assessing personal risk.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
boding more ill than good; grave danger
A widely used idiom to assess perilous circumstances where negative outcomes heavily outweigh positive ones.
in my opinion; I feel that
A common hedging device used before offering an intuitive judgment or evaluation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't think my chances are good.”
“is likely to be fraught with danger.”
“It doesn't look good.”
“(He might have died.)”
“in tomorrow's death match.”
“This is a very bad omen and an inauspicious sign.”