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嘗出滋味 The Taste Betrayed
我等各喝了一口，嘗出滋味，正欲下手擒拿，他卻走了。我等各喝了一口，尝出滋味，正欲下手擒拿，他却走了。
逐句解 Line by line
我等各喝了一口，嘗出滋味，正欲下手擒拿，他卻走了。
我等各喝了一口，尝出滋味，正欲下手擒拿，他却走了。
Each of us drank a mouthful and tasted the flavour of it; just as we were about to lay hands on him and seize him, he got away.
各喝了一口: 喝 = hē; 一 = yì before 口 (3rd tone). 下手擒拿 “to set to and seize.” 卻走了 “but he fled.”
The confession reaches its low point — the taste on the tongue confirming the trick — and its narrative purpose: the culprit escaped then, but sits before the throne now. The line pivots the grievance from the past into the present demand for reckoning.