二公子 夜已深了 我们该启程了
“Young Master Shi, it's late. We should set off.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你还好吗
“Are you alright?”
二公子 夜已深了 我们该启程了
“Young Master Shi, it's late. We should set off.”
二公子
“Young Master Shi!”
“It is dangerously late; we must leave right now.”
Retainers or servants use deferential forms of address and indirect time-based cues to guide their masters' behavior without appearing commanding.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it is getting late into the night
A poetic and polite way to indicate late hours before urging departure or sleep.
to set out on a journey
A formal, literary verb used instead of standard spoken terms like 出发.
Marks a change of state regarding the lateness of the hour and the necessity of immediate departure.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Young Master Shi, you're back. What's that gibberish?”
“Young Master Shi is not here. Please go back, My Lady...”
“This is his order. Please go back, Miss.”
“Second Young Master Zheng, let us go back and think about it.”
“Second Young Master Zheng, if there's nothing else, I will take my leave.”
“go after Young Master Shi! -Understood! -Understood!”