奴会被活活打死的公子
“I'd be beaten to death, sir.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If the Music Office finds out that I hid my illness and still received clients,”
奴 会 被 活活打死 的 公子
“I'd be beaten to death, sir.”
是吗
“Is that so?”
“Please keep my secret, my life literally depends on your silence.”
Female entertainers or servants in historical China used '奴' (servant/slave) as a humble self-address, showing their extremely low social status and total vulnerability before patrons.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
beaten to death alive
An emphatic expression emphasizing extreme physical cruelty and fatal consequence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“for his own selfish interests.”
“Why would he wait for someone to kill him?”
“I swear I'll kill you.”
“Then I'll truly be left with no hope.”
“so she killed the mothers to steal a child.”
“fearlessly killed Lord Changxin.”