人尽皆知的事
“Everyone knows about it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
都传到我们那去了
“It's already spread to our circle.”
人尽皆知 的事
“Everyone knows about it.”
她怎么可能不知道
“How could she not know?”
“Literally everyone knows this, so stop pretending she's in the dark.”
In tight-knit Chinese social or workplace circles, private news often spreads rapidly into an open secret that everyone pretends to ignore or acknowledge simultaneously.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
known to all; notorious; common knowledge
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) frequently used in speech to describe widely circulating rumors or universally known facts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it's common knowledge.”
“are obvious to everyone.”
“It's obvious to everyone.”
“This matter is practically known to everyone.”
“Who doesn't know him? [Wei Qilin]”
“vomiting in the Empress Dowager's chamber?”