还有丫鬟婆子围着喜轿 怎么会连那么大一个活人
“There were also maids surrounding the bridal sedan chair. How could a living, breathing person”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
宋国公府送亲的侍卫 和侍从有近百人
“The guards and attendants escorting the bride from the Duke of Song's Mansion numbered nearly a hundred.”
还有 丫鬟婆子围着喜轿 怎么会 连那么大一个活人
“There were also maids surrounding the bridal sedan chair. How could a living, breathing person”
死在里面都不知道
“die inside without anyone noticing?”
“It is completely impossible that no one noticed unless someone is lying or actively involved in the murder.”
In ancient elite weddings, the bridal sedan was heavily guarded and escorted by numerous domestic servants, making an unobserved incident highly suspicious.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
young maidservants and older female household servants
A traditional compound noun describing female domestic attendants in pre-modern China.
such a full-grown living person
Emphatic rhetorical phrase used to emphasize that something or someone is too obvious to overlook.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“please leave the body and the carriage be.”
“Why doesn't the prefect have the carriage and the body examined first?”
“Zhen can forget about getting into the bridal sedan! How could they make things hard for Zhen?”
“That's too bumpy.”
“This maid is quite pretty.”
“Like a bride on her wedding day, there's a first time for everything.”