就会把风筝放得又高又远
“she flies the kites high and far,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
每当贵妃思念自己的女儿的时候
“Whenever she misses her daughter,”
就会 把风 筝放得 又高又远
“she flies the kites high and far,”
希望宫墙外的女儿可以看到
“hoping her daughter outside the palace walls can see them.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Imperial concubines were forbidden from leaving palace grounds, making flying kites a classic literary and dramatic motif for projecting emotional freedom and contacting the outside world.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
both high and far
A parallel adjective construction '又 A 又 B' indicating two complementary positive qualities simultaneously.
fly the kite such that...
A classic 'ba' structure combined with a degree complement expressing the result of flying a kite.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Let's go! Let's go fly a kite!”
“What a huge kite!”
“Kites for sale! All kinds of kites!”
“When I look at these kites, I find them most pleasing.”
“stayed in the sky forever?”
“If we put it in, we might be able to see it.”