你们还曾见过其他人 摘掉面具的样子吗？
“Have you seen any other clients without their masks on?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The sketch was only possible thanks to them.”
你们还曾 见过 其他人 摘掉面具 的样子 吗 ？
“Have you seen any other clients without their masks on?”
他们很小心
“They were very careful, always wearing masks.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Witness accounts play a pivotal role in traditional and modern Chinese investigative narratives where forensic tools are minimal or obscured.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
take off a mask / remove one's mask
Used literally for physical masks or metaphorically for revealing one's true identity or intentions.
the appearance of; the state of
Appended to verbs or nouns to ask about or describe the physical look or demeanor of someone.
Converts the statement into an open yes-no question inquiring about past experience.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I've only ever seen you wearing a mask.”
“He always met us wearing a mask.”
“but your mask kept you from seeing it.”
“Changing your mask doesn't fool me. I see right through you.”
“that even my mask couldn't hide it.”
“I feel like I just saw my old self.”