哪里过去了 他们现在还在私下见面
“How is that in the past? They're still meeting in private.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“They merely had an engagement years ago. It's all in the past.”
哪里过去了 他们现在 还在 私下 见面
“How is that in the past? They're still meeting in private.”
嬷嬷你是瞎了吗 见面又能怎样 这是太后赐的婚
“Were you blind? So what if they meet? It's the Empress Dowager's decree.”
“Wake up! They are still secretly in love and actively seeing each other.”
In traditional China, clandestine meetings between betrothed or married individuals violated strict gender boundaries and social etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
How is it over? / It's far from over.
Use '哪里 + verb/adj' as a rhetorical rebuttal to strongly contradict someone's assumption.
to meet privately or secretly
Often carries a connotation of improper or forbidden romantic encounters.
Indicates the completion or past state within the negated phrase.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's all in the past. Don't think about it anymore."”
“That's all behind me now. Yeah.”
“I'd already forgotten that they were gone.”
“It's all in the past. It doesn't matter that much now.”
“Let the past stay in the past.”
“It's been so long since this happened.”