暗里 (also used as 暗中; Chinese PinYin: [àn lǐ]; traditional Chinese: 暗裡) may mean: (1) adverb. Secretly; (2) adv. Privily; (3) adv. In the dark. It is a common vocabulary that can be used in both formal and informal Mandarin Chinese. Some common phrases and expressions are: 暗里着迷 (secretly obsessed with someone), 暗里逮捕 (privily arrest), 暗里检查 (privily examine), 暗里喜欢 (secretly love), 暗里吸烟 (smoke on the sly), 暗里破坏 (secretly sabotage).
Literally: 暗 (secretly) + 里 (inside)
1. How to pronounce 暗里?
Chinese Pinyin: [àn lǐ]
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2. Synonyms And Antonyms of 暗里
Synonyms: 私下, 暗地里,
Antonyms: 公然, 公开,
3. What are the fixed expression, collocation and idioms that contains 暗里
Fixed expression: 暗里着迷 (secretly obsessed with someone),
Collocation: 暗里逮捕 (privily arrest), 暗里检查 (privily examine), 暗里喜欢 (secretly love), 暗里吸烟 (smoke on the sly), 暗里破坏 (secretly sabotage),
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4. How to use 暗里 in a sentence?
Below are some example sentences and quotes containing 暗里.
4.1 他明里对人笑，暗里却打着鬼主意一比如吃第一顿饭的时候，他就从巴克的那份中偷了一些。
Translation: He smiled into one’s face while he was privily planning some dishonest trick – as when he stole from Buck’s food at the first meal.
4.2 你会声称你实现了全民就业，而且拥有高超的生产力，却暗里逮捕那些报道真实情况的记者。
Translation: You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, but privily arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
4.3但是他们常常暗里检查他的床铺。
Translation: But they privily examined his bunk.
4.4 没有人会给部长们打电话，询问他们是否暗里喜欢着女人。
Translation: No one rings up ministers to ask if they are secretly attracted to women.
4.5 但是，正如我的调查发现的，合法捐助者的缺乏，表明这样的交易已是暗里存在的。
Translation: But, as my investigation uncovered, the shortage of legal donors means that such a trade already secretly exists.
4.6 他们暗里开发一个新项目： 新一代谷歌搜索 。
Translation: Secretly, they’ve been working on a new project: the next generation of Google Search .
4.7 有些男孩子暗里吸烟。
Translation: Some boys smoke on the sly.
4.8 这些寄生虫一样的公司暗里跟踪我们的上网活动，寻找消费行为和地理位置信息
Translation: These parasitic firms covertly track our web-browsing activities, search behavior and geolocation information.
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