八十太多了会死人的 二十吧
“That's too many. It'll kill her. Make it 20.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
禁足两月
“and grounded for two months.”
八十 太多了 会死人的 二十吧
“That's too many. It'll kill her. Make it 20.”
谢郡主开恩
“Thanks, Your Ladyship.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Floggings in imperial contexts were frequently fatal; higher-ranking nobles often demonstrated benevolence (仁德) by exercising discretion to reduce punishments.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it could kill someone / people will die
Used colloquially or dramatically to warn that an action is far too extreme and dangerous.
Softens the counter-proposal to twenty strikes, making it a suggestion rather than a command.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You're old. It's no shame to be afraid of death.”
“One pill shouldn't kill a person.”
“More people may die.”
“I should've died ten years ago.”
“You'd have died if I hadn't looked after you, with your blood pressure hitting 180.”
“They're in their seventies or eighties,”