你跟这武安侯非亲非故
“You're not related to the Marquis of Wu'an.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不知
“I don't.”
你跟这武安侯非亲非故
“You're not related to the Marquis of Wu'an.”
为什么要给他上牌位
“Why set up a memorial tablet for him?”
“You have no legitimate reason to honor him, so what are you hiding?”
In traditional China, making and venerating ancestral tablets (牌位) is strictly reserved for family members or solemn benefactors, making it suspicious when done for a non-relative.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
neither kith nor kin; unrelated by blood or friendship
A common four-character idiom used to emphasize that two people share no formal social or biological relationship.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We are Marquis of Wu'an's soldiers now.”
“why did he speak up for the Marquis of Wu'an? [Northwest Inn]”
“Let's go meet this Marquis of Wu'an.”
“The Marquis of Wu'an is nothing special.”
“If you're so tough, go fight the Marquis of Wu'an.”
“What a Marquis of Wu'an.”