若是母亲知道了 会不会不好交代
“If Mother finds out, won't it be hard to explain?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但是他现在突然消失了
“But he just disappeared all of a sudden.”
若是 母亲 知道了 会不会 不好交代
“If Mother finds out, won't it be hard to explain?”
在家里就说
“To the family, I'll just say...”
“Mother will be furious if she discovers this, so we need a convincing excuse immediately.”
'Jiaodai' implies fulfilling one's duty of accountability to family elders; failure to give a satisfactory account threatens domestic harmony.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if / supposing that
A slightly formal conditional conjunction used when introducing a worrisome hypothetical scenario.
hard to account for / difficult to explain or justify
An essential idiom used when an outcome will fail to satisfy an elder, boss, or superior authority.