你们是不是 有事瞒着我呢
“Are you keeping something from me?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你看见没有
“Did you see that?”
你们 是不是 有事瞒着我 呢
“Are you keeping something from me?”
孟总
“Mr. Meng.”
“I know you're keeping secrets from me, so confess right now.”
In Chinese corporate culture, superiors frequently use indirect or leading questions to give subordinates a chance to confess before being formally reprimanded.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
is it or is it not; whether or not
Commonly placed before a predicate to turn a statement into an interrogative tag, checking assumptions.
to hide or conceal something from someone
Typically followed by a person to indicate who is being kept in the dark.
Softens the interrogative slightly while sustaining a reflective, probing tone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Are you hiding something from me? No.”
“Is the family hiding something from me?”
“Yeah. Maybe they're deliberately hiding something good from us?”