不要再让人动了手脚 要不是等着看他过堂
“to prevent anyone from tampering with it. If I wasn't waiting to see him stand trial,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这药 你一定要亲手煎好 盯着秦安喝下去
“You must brew the medicine yourself and watch Qin An drink it”
不要再 让人 动了手脚 要不是 等着 看他过堂
“to prevent anyone from tampering with it. If I wasn't waiting to see him stand trial,”
我才不愿意伺候他呢
“I wouldn't bother taking care of him.”
“Make sure nobody poisons him; I despise him, but we need him alive for the trial.”
In historical investigative dramas, keeping key witnesses or suspects alive through poisonings and backroom assassination attempts is a crucial procedural imperative.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tamper with / play underhanded tricks
An essential idiom meaning to tamper with, sabotage, or doctor physical evidence or medicine.
if it were not for...
Used to introduce a single compelling reason that prevents or excuses an otherwise undesirable action.
appear before a judicial hearing / stand trial
A traditional legal term for bringing an accused person into the magistrate's hall for trial.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“My little tricks can never escape you.”
“No intimate contact here.”
“No one is to touch it before I return.”
“In the end, those you want removed might stay,”
“This one's been touched. Give me a hand.”
“We can't let the guest do it, it's the rule.”