"Secretly" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 sī zì private / personal / secretly / without explicit approval
 tōu tōu stealthily / secretly / covertly / furtively / on the sly
 àn àn secretly / inwardly
 àn zì inwardly / to oneself / secretly
 àn dì li secretly / inwardly / on the sly
 àn dì secretly / inwardly
 sī dǐ xia privately / secretly / confidentially
 qiè qiè privately / secretly / unobtrusively
 bèi dì secretly / in private / behind someone's back
 qiè to steal / secretly / (humble) I
 yān rán covertly / secretly
 xù xù quietly / secretly
 àn li privately / secretly / behind closed doors
 àn liàn to be secretly in love with
 liū zǒu to slip away / to leave secretly
 qián yí mò huà imperceptible influence / to influence secretly
 qiè xǐ to be secretly delighted
 àn hài to kill secretly / to stab in the back
 mì gào to report secretly / to tip off
 àn dù Chén cāng lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
 àn zhuǎn (theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly
 mì huì secret meeting / to meet secretly
 chuō gū to stir up behind sb's back / to incite secretly
 xié dài to carry along / to carry on one's person / to carry secretly
 míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
 àn zhōng jiān shì to monitor secretly / to spy on
 sī móu pàn guó to secretly plan treason (idiom)
 Mǐ fū Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
 dǎ mèn léi (coll.) to wonder secretly / to make wild conjectures
线 qū xiàn jiù guó (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
 míng lǐ àn lǐ both publicly and privately / both overtly and secretly / both explicitly and implicitly
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