我并非是为自己开脱
“I'm not excusing myself.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
阿娘说了 我从今以后叫肖忆恩
“Mother said that I'll be Xiao Yi'en from now on.”
我并非是 为自己开脱
“I'm not excusing myself.”
但伍思坪的死 的确是天道轮回
“But Wu Siping's death was his own retribution.”
“Don't blame me; his death was divine retribution, not my fault.”
Speakers often invoke cosmic karma or destiny (天道) to defuse personal culpability and make catastrophic outcomes appear inevitable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to absolve oneself; to make excuses for oneself
A common idiom used when someone tries to deflect blame or minimize their wrongdoing.
it is certainly not the case that
A formal, emphatic way to deny a presupposition or accusation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That cannot be your excuse.”
“It's not me, indeed.”
“(I don't regret what I did.)”
“not how to get rid of the crime,”
“I really didn't mean to.”
“I didn't mean to.”