流寇一事你有几分把握
“how confident are you about this bandit plan?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
先生
“Sir,”
流寇一事你 有几分把握
“how confident are you about this bandit plan?”
王爷
“Your Highness!”
“Be honest with me: can you actually pull this off, or will this blow up in our faces?”
In Chinese parlance, confidence is measured in 'fen' (tenths), where asking for 'how many tenths' demands a quantified gut-check on likelihood of success.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
roving bandits; roving rebel forces
A historical term denoting nomadic insurgent groups or bandits destabilizing dynastic borders.
how confident are you; what are the odds of success
A highly practical colloquial and formal idiom used to ask someone for their estimated probability of success out of ten.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“These bandits really had a plan all along.”
“What if you run into bandits”
“and perhaps, there are also horse bandits.”
“Did you really hide a refugee?”
“Who would believe a bandit?”
“You ran into bandits”