还一直潜伏了这么多年
“after years of hiding and avoiding detection,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
如果我们厂子里出了一个 坏分子典型
“if a "bad element" came from our factory”
还一直 潜伏了这么多年
“after years of hiding and avoiding detection,”
你说
“tell me,”
“Imagine how serious it would be if someone among us turned out to be an enemy agent.”
The phrasing echoes classic political discourse from the mid-20th century PRC, where unmasking 'hidden class enemies' (潜伏坏分子) inside factories was a constant theme of political vigilance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
continuously / all along
Used before verbs to indicate that an action or state has persisted uninterrupted.
to hide undercover / to lurk secretly
Frequently used in political, military, or espionage contexts to describe sleeper agents.
Marks the completion and continuation of the duration of lurking up to the present moment.
