你们要瞒我到什么时候
“how much longer would you have kept this hidden from me?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
发现端倪
“the truth today,”
你们 要 瞒我 到什么时候
“how much longer would you have kept this hidden from me?”
“Stop treating me like a fool and tell me the whole truth right now.”
Chinese families or groups often hide grave truths to protect loved ones, but discovery inevitably triggers intense feelings of infantilization and breach of trust.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to conceal the truth from; to deceive
Follows the pattern '瞒 + person + 事' or '瞒着...'; essential for discussing secrets.
until when; for how long
Frequently used rhetorically in complaints to emphasize that a situation has dragged on too long.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“how long were you planning to keep this from me?”
“How much longer are you going to hide it from me?”
“planning to hide the financials from me?”