我若技艺不精 又是如何被选入宫？
“If I lacked skill, how would I have been chosen into the palace?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
幸好遇到了玉书 你技艺不精 当不得这差事
“Luckily, I met Yushu. You lack skill. You are unfit for this post.”
我若 技艺不精 又是 如何 被选入宫？
“If I lacked skill, how would I have been chosen into the palace?”
谁知道你是靠什么 被选入宫的呀？
“Who knows what you relied on to get in?”
“My qualifications are officially verified, so stop trying to undermine my skills.”
Passing rigorous imperial palace selection was regarded as definitive institutional proof of high-level talent, making it a powerful defense against slander.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
lacking technical proficiency; unskilled in one's craft
A formal evaluation of professional or artistic competence, often used critically.
selected into the imperial palace
Refers to the rigorous governmental audition and recruitment process for court artisans or attendants.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How could she think she can enter the palace for favor,”
“I just entered the palace, and I don't know the rules.”
“At first, I worked in the Imperial Palace”
“the palace treats me much differently now.”
“my family got convicted, and I was sent to the palace as a eunuch.”
“In all my years in the palace,”