Abe Sargent
03-01-2007, 04:35 PM
I was reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms just now as a break from WW and EU3 when I came across a place where Liu Bei is fleeing Lu Bu's army and stays at a small village overnight. There , a hunter named Liu An, wanting to provide meat for Liu Bei, butchers his wife and then tells Liu Bei that it's wolf. Before he leaves, Liu Bei discovers the wife's corpse, minus an arm, and weeps in GRATITUDE. Ewww.
My hope is that butcher here means something different than it means to me. When I hear, "I butchered that cow," to me, it means killed and chopped the cow. Maybe to Chinese it means just to chop up something that is already dead.
So, I want to look up this in some form of Three Kingdoms database. Considering how huge the R3K storyline is, I figure there's got to be a database out there somewhere. Hopefully one in English! I had no luck, but some of you have much better google-fu. I;d appreciate any help you could muster.
In the meantime, I;m going to go get some dinner.
-Anxiety
My hope is that butcher here means something different than it means to me. When I hear, "I butchered that cow," to me, it means killed and chopped the cow. Maybe to Chinese it means just to chop up something that is already dead.
So, I want to look up this in some form of Three Kingdoms database. Considering how huge the R3K storyline is, I figure there's got to be a database out there somewhere. Hopefully one in English! I had no luck, but some of you have much better google-fu. I;d appreciate any help you could muster.
In the meantime, I;m going to go get some dinner.
-Anxiety