不过是长公主羞辱人的伎俩
“Her Highness was just trying to humiliate me”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
杀我 她朝堂必乱
“It would plunge the court into chaos.”
不过是 长 公主 羞辱 人的 伎俩
“Her Highness was just trying to humiliate me”
想出口气罢了
“and vent her spite.”
“She cannot actually kill me, so she is just acting out pettily to save face.”
Labeling an imperial adversary's scheme as a mere 'trick' (伎俩) is a classic rhetorical device to project moral and intellectual superiority in court politics.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
merely; nothing more than
Employed to diminish the significance, severity, or dignity of an event or adversary's actions.
tricks/schemes to humiliate people
A derogatory phrase used to characterize an opponent's maneuvers as cheap and unprincipled.