公主殿下请慎言 在下与公主殿下素不相识
“Princess Yuanwu, watch your words. We've never met before.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
燕少帅为我驸马
“a marriage to Young Marshal Yan.”
公主 殿下请 慎言 在下 与 公主 殿下 素不相识
“Princess Yuanwu, watch your words. We've never met before.”
何来驸马之说
“How can I marry you?”
“Do not make up such rumors; I refuse to be associated with you.”
Publicly rejecting an imperial family member's advances requires utmost formal etiquette to protect oneself legally while firmly denying the liaison.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
please watch your words; speak with caution
A highly formal, polite yet firm warning telling someone to stop making inappropriate statements.
complete strangers; to have never met before
A formal four-character idiom used to emphasize that two parties have no prior acquaintance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Instead, he hid the truth from me with his servants' help.”
“and I offended Your Highness. Please forgive me.”
“(The prince-and-princess script isn't in our hands.)”
“Don't worry. Your Majesty. Before Her Highness left, I divined for her.”
“Princess Lingyun, do not take it to heart.”
“Had I known you were a princess, I wouldn't have made that rash decision.”