定是有人在暗处动了手脚
“Someone must've set a trap in secret and chosen”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谁会躲到沼泽地来
“who would hide in a swamp?”
定是 有人 在暗处 动了手脚
“Someone must've set a trap in secret and chosen”
专拣着太子负责安防时杀害元弘
“to kill Yuan Hong when our Crown Prince was handling security.”
“This is definitely a planned conspiracy, not an accident.”
In Chinese narrative tradition, political rivals frequently sabotage events covertly to engineer the downfall of high officials.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the shadows / behind the scenes
Describes hidden actions conducted covertly out of public sight.
to tamper with / to play tricks
A common idiom meaning to covertly manipulate or sabotage something.
Indicates the completion of an action that brought about the current suspicious situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“someone tampered with it in secret.”
“Someone must be pulling the strings.”
“Seems like someone's behind this.”
“someone must be plotting behind the scenes,”
“yet those people still dare to operate underground.”
“with Meng Dehai and Yang Jian”
“someone tampered with the glue bucket.”
“some people will generate wrong ideas,”