殿下千万莫自暴自弃了
“Please don't give up hope, Your Highness.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我已托付父亲 把母后手书送往国舅军中
“I've asked my father to deliver Mother's letter to your uncle's army.”
殿下千万 莫自暴自弃 了
“Please don't give up hope, Your Highness.”
辛苦你了朝羽
“Thank you for your efforts, Zhaoyu.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Allies and loyal subordinates in imperial China tethered their own fates to their prince's success, making emotional steadfastness vital.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
By all means do not; must never
An earnest, high-register plea urging someone to avoid a specific detrimental action.
To abandon oneself to despair; to give up on oneself
An idiom (chengyu) describing total loss of morale and reckless surrender to failure.
Indicates an emergent negative state that the speaker urges the listener to halt immediately.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Someone as noble as you wouldn't understand.”
“Your Highness, you trust me too much.”
“(I'm prepared to die for it.)”
“you spurn”
“Mr. Murong praised this plan for achieving much with little,”
“I've never once asked the captain for favors.”