你们两个偷偷摸摸地 背着我干嘛呢
“What have you two been up to behind my back?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说吧
“Tell me.”
你们两个 偷偷摸摸 地 背着我 干嘛呢
“What have you two been up to behind my back?”
“Nothing. What could we possibly be doing?”
“I caught you two hiding something from me—spill it right now!”
In close-knit Chinese families or friend groups, keeping secrets is often playfully or seriously challenged as a breach of collective trust, making direct call-outs like this very common.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sneakily; furtively; behind closed doors
Use this reduplicated idiom to describe suspicious, secretive behavior when someone is trying not to be noticed.
behind my back
Place a person or pronoun after the verb phrase to accuse someone of doing something without that person's knowledge.
Marks an ongoing action while adding an inquisitive, slightly pressing tone to the wh-question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We can keep it a secret.”
“Have you been secretly seeing someone?”
“Why are we sneaking around?”
“we used to sneak around when we came here before.”
“what was done in secret were brought”
“I wasn't sneaking around. If I really wanted to sneak around,”