柳刺史是喝了酒之后才去找你的
“Prefect Liu went looking for you after drinking,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但据下人说
“However, according to servants,”
柳刺史是喝了酒之后才去找你的
“Prefect Liu went looking for you after drinking,”
“and it seems you had an argument.”
“You are hiding something about what happened when he visited you drunk.”
In historical and high-stakes contexts, investigators often quote third-party reports ('according to the servants') to question higher-ranking individuals without causing immediate loss of face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
prefectural governor (historical administrative title)
Use when discussing historical Chinese governance, historical dramas, or classical literature.
only after doing something...
A core conditional structure used to emphasize that the latter action occurred strictly subsequent to the first.
Functions within the 'shi...de' cleft construction to emphasize the specific time condition under which the action took place.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“that Prefect Liu died from a drunken accident.”
“After separating from you,”
“Prefect Liu has the final word.”
“For the prefect to die under such suspicious circumstances”
“There's been progress in Prefect Liu's case.”
“the killer took advantage of his drunken state”