宋姨娘和周妈妈 买通媒婆毁我清誉
“Song Miaohua and Nanny Zhou paid off the matchmaker.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
请太太恕罪
“I beg Ma'am for mercy.”
宋姨娘和周妈妈 买通 媒婆 毁我清誉
“Song Miaohua and Nanny Zhou paid off the matchmaker.”
非但是要奔着 坏我一辈子的名声去
“This wasn't just aimed at ruining my reputation for life,”
“You cannot brush this off as a minor domestic squabble; they committed an unforgivable offense against me.”
In traditional Chinese society, an unmarried woman's moral reputation was paramount; tarnishing it could destroy her marriage prospects and ruin her entire future.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bribe; to buy off
Use this transitive verb when someone bribes an intermediary or official to do something illicit.
ruin my honorable reputation / defame my honor
A highly formal four-character idiom used when defending one's moral integrity against slander.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“that Concubine Song must have known what Nanny Zhou was doing.”
“That concubine Song truly has a vicious heart.”
“But I don't think you'd have taken the risk”
“I get scolded more than enough every day.”
“Deliberately sowing discord between Madam and Lady Song?”
“My mother knows nothing. She did nothing. Nothing at all.”