据说他们现在是 无孔不入啊 神出鬼没的
“They say they're everywhere now. Elusive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“How would they know where I'm coming back from?”
据说 他们现在是 无孔不入 啊 神出鬼没 的
“They say they're everywhere now. Elusive.”
哪儿哪儿都有他们
“All over the place.”
“You can't hide from them; they track everyone down.”
Chinese speakers often string two evocative four-character idioms together in spoken discourse to heighten dramatic effect and persuasiveness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all-pervasive; finding every opening; getting in everywhere
Often used with a slightly negative or cautionary tone to describe intrusive people, influences, or schemes.
appearing and disappearing unpredictably; elusive
An idiom applied to people or forces whose movements are stealthy and hard to anticipate.
Pauses the cadence for rhetorical emphasis, highlighting the vividness of the description.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If I had arrived earlier today, they wouldn't have been even allowed in.”
“The current situation is chaotic anyway, so they won't find out.”
“How could they just pop up out of nowhere”