神神鬼鬼的
“secretive and odd.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她身边这些女孩 一个个都
“All those girls around her are so”
神神鬼鬼 的
“secretive and odd.”
我不知道 说不清楚
“I have no idea. It's hard to tell.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Colloquial Chinese often uses AABB-patterned idioms like this to vividly convey skepticism and slight social disapproval toward eccentric behaviors.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
acting secretive, bizarre, superstitious, or spooky
A colloquial reduplicative idiom used to criticize someone acting unnaturally suspicious or weird.
Marks descriptive categorization and emphasizes the state or quality being attributed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“about deities and spirits. In the end, they all went away,”
“Ghost! There's a ghost!”
“Never heard of him. A god, is he?”
“A water ghost!”
“The Japanese are very cunning.”
“You demon!”