朔漠人只是借个路而已
“The Northern Desert troops are just passing by.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“- What do you want? - Don't be nervous.”
朔漠人 只是 借个路 而已
“The Northern Desert troops are just passing by.”
你们这是叛国
“This is treason!”
“Calm down, it's not an invasion, so don't make a fuss.”
Downplaying grave misconduct as an everyday triviality is a common pragmatic deflection tactic in Chinese social and political conflicts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
borrow a passage / pass through
Literally 'borrowing a road'; used euphemistically here to make military transit sound harmless.
merely... and nothing more
A classic sentence pattern used to minimize the perceived importance or gravity of an action.