那个人也定有所耳闻
“the murderer would surely hear of it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就算内谒局不查
“Even if the Palace Investigation Bureau didn't react,”
那个 人也定 有所耳闻
“the murderer would surely hear of it.”
只要他有反应
“As long as they reacted,”
“He definitely knows what's going on, and he will slip up once he reacts.”
In historical Chinese bureaucratic settings, major players constantly monitor rumors and subtle intelligence to outmaneuver political rivals without overt confrontation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have heard something about; to have wind of
A sophisticated four-character idiom used in formal or literary contexts to indicate indirect knowledge of an event.
certainly also; surely
A concise classical-style adverbial phrase used to assert strong confidence in an assumption.