他早就已经倒向小皇帝了 那有什么关系
“He's long since sided with the Emperor. What does that matter?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他是可以拉拢的
“We can work with him.”
他 早就 已经 倒向 小皇帝了 那 有什么关系
“He's long since sided with the Emperor. What does that matter?”
他的目标是对付穆阳侯
“His goal is to deal with Marquis Muyang.”
“It does not matter who he officially serves; we can still manipulate him for our own ends.”
In Chinese court dramas, formal factional ties are fluid; pragmatism and shared targets often override nominal loyalties.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
already long ago
Use this double emphatic structure to stress that a state or action was completed well in advance.
to take sides with; to lean towards
Commonly used in political or organizational contexts to describe shifting allegiances.
what does that matter; so what
A rhetorical question used to brush aside someone's counterargument as irrelevant.
Marks a completed change of state or allegiance in the past.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you'd have likely ascended to the throne long ago.”
“She had known all along.”
“since the Construction Engineering Group was first established.”
“and the Emperor has already found a new love.”
“He was annihilated long ago.”