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誰敢扯壞 Who Dares Tear It
恨一聲，便要扯破。早被眾人架住道：「你是死了。此乃當今國王出的榜文，誰敢扯壞？恨一声，便要扯破。早被众人架住道：「你是死了。此乃当今国王出的榜文，谁敢扯坏？
逐句解 Line by line
恨一聲，便要扯破。
恨一声，便要扯破。
He gave a snarl and made to tear it up.
恨 here is a sound rather than a feeling — a noise made through the teeth, which is why it is counted with 一聲, one utterance of it.
早被眾人架住道：「你是死了。
早被众人架住道：「你是死了。
But the crowd had his arms pinned already: "You are a dead man.
架住 is to grab a man by both arms and hold them apart, and 早 puts it before his own movement: they had him before he began.
此乃當今國王出的榜文，誰敢扯壞？
此乃当今国王出的榜文，谁敢扯坏？
"This is a proclamation issued by the reigning king. Who would dare tear it?"
當 is dāng, the present reign — the same reading the rhapsody used at 當今世民 when it named the Tang emperor.
The paper has become more dangerous than the theft. Nobody in the crowd cares how he got it; what stops them all cold is the prospect of its being destroyed, and they physically restrain him to prevent it.
你是死了 — you are a dead man — is flat and almost kind, a statement of the legal position rather than a threat. The men holding him are not angry. They are explaining what he has done.