他明里暗里提醒我
“He kept hinting”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
难怪
“No wonder.”
他 明里暗里 提醒 我
“He kept hinting”
要了解你过去的感情
“that I should learn about your past.”
“He has been probing into your past through me via both direct hints and indirect questions.”
Directly asking someone about sensitive romantic history can cause loss of face, so people often use mutual friends to probe 'openly and secretly'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
openly and secretly / both explicitly and implicitly
A vivid four-character idiom describing behavior that is carried out through both direct cues and subtle, indirect maneuvers.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“investigating me openly and secretly.”
“I'm only reminding you out of goodwill.”
“Maybe fate was trying to tell me all along”
“Just giving a friendly reminder.”
“Let me remind you.”
“Let me jog your memory.”