其家属岂能置身事外啊
“How can his family escape implication?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
黎王谋逆
“Prince Li plotted treason.”
其家属 岂能置身事外 啊
“How can his family escape implication?”
我没有置身事外
“I don't escape implication.”
“You are guilty by association and you will not escape punishment.”
In traditional imperial Chinese legal doctrine, serious crimes like treason extended liability across entire households and clans.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how can / how could it be that
A classical rhetorical marker used in formal arguments to strongly deny an alternative possibility.
to stay out of the affair / remain detached
An idiom referring to keeping oneself completely uninvolved in an issue, especially when one is expected to care or be implicated.
Emphasizes the rhetorical question, lending force and reproach to the accusation.
