我以大火熔不了金像为由
“I claimed the fire couldn't melt the gold”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
等等
“Wait.”
我 以 大火熔 不了 金像 为由
“I claimed the fire couldn't melt the gold”
留下这尊佛
“just to save this statue.”
“I made up a plausible excuse so they wouldn't destroy it.”
In Buddhist-influenced cultural contexts, using clever pretexts or white lies to protect sacred religious relics from desecration is regarded as righteous rather than deceitful.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
on the grounds of...; under the pretext of...
A classic formal grammatical frame used to state an official reason, excuse, or pretext for an action.
unable to melt
A potential complement expressing physical impossibility or inability to achieve the result of melting.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Gold shines wherever it is.”
“and destroy the whole lot.”
“from Qinghong Sect appear”
“but puts me on the hot seat repeatedly.”
“I thought I could find a bigger sponsor,”
“(South and North Villages, Tuoxi River) were burned to the ground by a fire.”