今晚在屋子里发生的事
“Don't tell your sister”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
长宁
“Changning.”
今晚在屋子里发生的事
“Don't tell your sister”
别告诉你姐
“what happened tonight.”
“We both know what just went down, and we need to deal with the fallout immediately.”
In Chinese family dynamics, bad news or scandalous events are frequently concealed from certain sensitive or vulnerable members to avoid distress.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what happened / the things that occurred
A common structure to nominalize an event or incident as a discussion topic.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I saw this at home a few days ago.”
“I don't know what they said in the room,”
“Keep what just happened”
“The recent events have been a bit peculiar.”
“everything that happened back then. What's done is done.”
“it has happened.”