治你的罪都算便宜你了
“Punishing you would be letting you off lightly.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
萧瑾瑜
“Xiao Jinyu.”
治你的罪 都 算 便宜你了
“Punishing you would be letting you off lightly.”
“You must clean up this mess for me.”
“I am not executing you because you are more useful fixing this mess right now.”
Chinese rulers historically balanced wrath with pragmatism, threatening severe imperial punishment while granting redemption through solving the state's problems.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to let someone off easy; consider someone lucky
Common spoken idiom used when someone deserves a harsher penalty or consequence than what they actually receive.
to punish you; to convict you
A classical and historical formula used by rulers or judges when deciding judicial punishment.
Functions as a change-of-state modal particle, completing the evaluative predicate '算便宜你了'.
