我幼时确实有所耳闻
“the Princess Consort of Duan was skilled at the pipa.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
萧某的确不知道 但端王妃擅弹琵琶
“I truly didn't. But when I was a child, I did hear”
我幼时 确实 有所耳闻
“the Princess Consort of Duan was skilled at the pipa.”
是吗？
“Really?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In educated and courtly Chinese discourse, speakers use modest idiomatic expressions like '有所耳闻' rather than blunt assertions to demonstrate cultivation and accuracy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in childhood / during youth
A formal, written or literary term equivalent to the spoken '小时候'.
to have heard about something
An elegant, modest four-character idiom used to confirm indirect or vague prior knowledge of an event.
