但如今尚有多人下落不明
“Three Judicial Offices have investigated but many remain missing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
三法司多有追查
“Three Judicial Offices have investigated but many remain missing.”
但如今尚有多人下落不明
“Three Judicial Offices have investigated but many remain missing.”
还望南赵
“We hope Nanzhao will assist as much as possible”
“The case is far from closed and people are still in peril, so you must intervene.”
Classical bureaucratic diction prioritizes succinct, formal idioms to convey urgency and respect simultaneously during imperial jurisdictional interactions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
whereabouts unknown; missing
A standard formal four-character idiom (chengyu) commonly used in legal, investigative, and news contexts.
there still remains / still are
A formal and written equivalent of '还有', characteristic of official reports and diplomatic discourse.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Unsolved. People go missing. No one knows anything about it.”
“but still hasn't replied up to this moment.”
“Looks like the missing people aren't limited to just laborers.”
“are still unaccounted for.”