那不是手到擒来的事
“and it would be an easy catch.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I thought they were just a few mortals,”
那不是 手到擒来 的事
“and it would be an easy catch.”
却没想到这么麻烦
“I didn't expect it to be this much trouble.”
“I totally misjudged how difficult this would be.”
A standard trope in Chinese narrative ethics where arrogant cultivators or villains suffer setbacks after treating mortal or weaker adversaries too lightly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
easily accomplished; practically in the bag
A classic Chinese idiom used to describe a task that requires very little effort or is guaranteed to succeed.
wouldn't that be a matter of...
A rhetorical framing expressing that something was previously taken for granted as obvious or simple.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's not going to be easy.”
“is nothing for him.”
“(Notice) This won't be easy.”
“it's not that simple.”
“is no easy task.”
“to kill Xiao Xun.”
“The game at court is never that simple.”
“This is no easy task.”