谁都有前尘往事
“Everyone has a past.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
长公主多虑了
“I understand.”
谁都有 前尘往事
“Everyone has a past.”
“Lady Su has her own difficulties. I understand.”
“Do not judge her too harshly; we all have things in our past that cannot be undone.”
Invoking shared human frailty and the inevitability of past mistakes is a classic rhetorical technique in traditional Chinese culture to counsel restraint and forgiveness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
past events / bygone days
A poetic four-character idiom referring to memories and history from one's earlier life, often carrying a tinge of sorrow.
everyone has
Used to normalize a flaw, difficulty, or situation by stating that nobody is exempt from it.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“chat with me about old memories.”
“Back then, you were troubled by the past”
“(seemed to lie many long-buried past events,)”
“Past events and old grudges,”
“Just past history. Bai Xue.”
“Sometimes, when people get stuck in the past”
“these are all in the past.”
“What's past is in the past.”