我甚至可以找一个替死鬼 顶了你们李家通番的罪名
“I can even find a scapegoat to take the blame for the Li family's illicit foreign trade.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I'll let what happened today slide.”
我甚至可以找一个 替死鬼 顶了你们李家通番的罪名
“I can even find a scapegoat to take the blame for the Li family's illicit foreign trade.”
到时你重新跟了我
“Then you can be with me again.”
“I can save your family from execution with the snap of my fingers, but only if you yield to me.”
In historical and dramatic contexts, influential figures frequently weaponize severe political crimes to exert romantic or social control over vulnerable subordinates.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
scapegoat; fall guy
A vivid colloquial term literally meaning 'ghost who dies in another's place', used for someone framed or sacrificed for another's crime.
to take the blame for a crime; to shoulder accusations for someone else
A colloquial collocation describing taking the legal rap for another party.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“this is proof of their illicit foreign trade. Shut up!”
“and won't wrong our Li family.”
“and I must give the Li family an explanation.”
“As long as you break off with the Li family...”
“Your Li family has a traitor within.”
“The crimes our Li family committed are utterly unforgivable.”