听闻你桀骜不驯仇家甚多
“it's said you're defiant and have plenty of enemies.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
徐常
“Xu Chang,”
听闻 你 桀骜不驯 仇家甚多
“it's said you're defiant and have plenty of enemies.”
能走到今天的位置 全靠元弘太子提拔 你想说说
“You got where you are now all thanks to Crown Prince Yuan Hong's support. Would you like to explain”
“You are reckless and vulnerable; remember your place.”
In Chinese bureaucratic culture, citing a subordinate's negative social reputation is a standard rhetorical strategy to demoralize them.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
stubborn and untamable; fiercely arrogant
A common idiom used to characterize individuals who refuse to submit to authority or standard discipline.
having numerous enemies or adversaries
A formal and literary way to highlight someone's high-risk interpersonal or political situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I heard you sets out for the frontier today,”
“I heard the late emperor gave a mansion to the Ye family”
“I heard you have a photographic memory.”
“News came that you were in danger on the battlefield.”
“I've also heard she's highly accomplished in her studies.”
“I heard it was the Butcher Beauty who saved my son,”