下官绝对无意 在郡主面前班门弄斧
“I didn't mean to act like I knew about forensics better than you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
郡主息怒
“Please don't be angry, Your Highness.”
下官 绝对 无意 在郡主面前 班门弄斧
“I didn't mean to act like I knew about forensics better than you.”
还请郡主
“Your Highness,”
“Please do not punish me; I would never dare disrespect your authority.”
Subordinate officials had to display extreme linguistic subservience to imperial nobility to mitigate royal wrath.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
display one's slight skill before an expert; teach fish how to swim
A humble idiom used almost exclusively when apologizing for or avoiding showing off before a superior.
this subordinate official
Historical humble first-person pronoun used by officials when addressing those of higher rank.
absolutely have no intention to
Used in formal speech to emphatically deny any malicious or disrespectful intent.
