把这些贪官抓起来不就行了
“Isn't it enough to put these corrupt officials in jail?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还杀了好多的狗官
“His Majesty also executed many corrupt officials!”
把这些贪官 抓起来 不就行了
“Isn't it enough to put these corrupt officials in jail?”
干吗要问斩呢
“Why execute them?”
“Why go as far as executing them when locking them up solves the problem?”
In traditional Chinese dynastic rule, capital punishment (问斩) was used to deter severe corruption, but common folk often debated the moral necessity of such extreme measures.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wouldn't that suffice; wouldn't that solve it
A very common rhetorical expression used to propose what the speaker sees as an obvious, sufficient solution.
arrest; round up
A colloquial directional verb phrase used when taking criminals or suspects into custody.
Functions within the fixed pattern '不就行了' to indicate a sufficient change of state or outcome.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Rob a corrupt official, get rich,”
“[Sanjiangkou Entertainment Newspaper] Robbing a corrupt official will do.”
“Otherwise, even if the person is a big corrupt official,”
“it'll be like we robbed the corrupt official four times.”
“and it has to be a big one.”
“For one thing, he's a corrupt official.”