以免其一错再错
“preventing him from making further mistakes.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and I was deeply grieved. So I rushed here to stop him,”
以免其 一错再错
“preventing him from making further mistakes.”
大人
“Your Excellency.”
“I intervened out of civic virtue to stop him before he caused even greater disaster.”
When appearing before officials in traditional Chinese settings, litigants emphasize moral duty and preventing moral degeneration to prove their motives are pure and loyal to public order.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in order to avoid, lest
A formal conjunction placed before an undesirable consequence that an action seeks to prevent.
to repeat mistakes continuously, to sink deeper into error
A four-character idiom describing someone stubbornly persisting on a wrong course of action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“♪ Let my tears be carried away, back into the ocean ♪ so as not to make the same mistake.”
“Don't make any more mistakes.”
“you cannot make the same mistake again”