却不料让行凶人有了可乘之机
“unwittingly giving the assailant a chance to strike.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
元弘太子趁机去追那只雪狐
“Crown Prince Yuan Hong chased after the snow fox,”
却不料让行凶人有了 可乘之机
“unwittingly giving the assailant a chance to strike.”
行凶人重创元弘太子后 再用诱兽饵料
“After severely wounding Crown Prince Yuan Hong, the attacker then used animal bait”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese detective and court-intrigue dramas, deductive reasoning often adopts formal narrative idioms like '可乘之机' to establish professional investigative authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
yet unexpectedly / contrary to expectations
A written-leaning connector used in spoken narrative to introduce an unforeseen, usually adverse, plot twist or development.
an opportunity to exploit / an opening to take advantage of
A common four-character idiom (chengyu) denoting a vulnerability that gives an adversary or criminal an advantageous opening.
