隐藏流民乃是重罪
“that hiding refugees is a felony,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你可知
“Do you know”
隐藏流民乃是重罪
“that hiding refugees is a felony,”
如同通敌
“tantamount to treason?”
“You are playing with fire and risking execution; stop this madness immediately.”
Imperial Chinese dynasties strictly controlled populations via household registers (huji); harboring unregistered wanderers (liumin) threatened public order and was legally treated with extreme severity akin to treason.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
is indeed; is precisely (archaic copula)
A formal, literary equivalent of '是', commonly heard in historical dramas and formal statements.
felony; serious crime; capital offense
Used in legal and formal discourse to denote an offense carrying severe penalties.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I fear it will cause a refugee crisis”
“Did you really hide a refugee?”
“searching for refugees without household registration document.”
“people became homeless.”
“have gone missing again recently.”
“pacifying the refugees, and getting through this crisis together.”