你也只能以戴罪之身重回役所做苦役
“you'll have to work in the labor camp as a guilty person.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他若是一查到底 那时候 就算有人力保你的性命
“When he gets to the bottom, by then, even if someone protects you,”
你也 只能 以 戴罪之身 重回役所做苦役
“you'll have to work in the labor camp as a guilty person.”
你们梁氏一族便再难有翻身之日了
“Your clan won't be able to rise again.”
“You will be thoroughly ruined as a degraded convict if you don't heed my warning.”
In traditional Chinese society, an individual's criminal conviction would taint and doom the entire clan (宗族) from political resurrection.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as a convicted felon / with a guilty status
A formal four-character set phrase used in historical or legal contexts referring to someone serving under disgrace.
to do penal hard labor
Refers to serving sentence through manual forced labor, typically used in historical or prison contexts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“yourself through hard labor at the Refinement Quarry.”
“You are nothing but a convicted prisoner”
“As someone under punishment,”
“Do you want to end up in the Penal Court's prison too? How dare you!”
“and I can erase your criminal status.”
“He can atone for his crimes by earning merits in the future.”