不让你爸爸妈妈知道
“keeping your parents from knowing that.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“So you can also miss your sister secretly on your own,”
不让你 爸爸妈妈 知道
“keeping your parents from knowing that.”
不能让爸爸发现
“I can't let my dad find that.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese domestic dynamics, delicate or painful family topics are often processed covertly to preserve emotional balance and avoid upsetting household heads.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not letting someone know / keeping someone in the dark
A straightforward negative causative construction used when establishing secrecy.