With a tender smile, Mom tries to help me feel better; reminds me depression is a skeleton in our family's closet.

妈妈的笑容给人一种柔软的感觉，她想让我好过一点，并提醒我压抑的情绪是我们这个家庭都存在的，并且别有对这种情况都不是很了解。

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A "skeleton in the closet" is an English idiom that means everyone has a secret, some hidden dream or sorrow.

“壁橱里的骷髅”是有名的英国俗语，意思是人人都有自己的秘密、梦想或悲伤。

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After a time, people began to suspect every doctor of hiding a skeleton in the closet.

一段时间后，人们开始怀疑每个医生都在柜子中藏有一副骨架。

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In the next installment of All Things Considered's "Hidden Treasures" series, Harriet Baskas reports on a real skeleton in the closet.

NPR: Hidden Museum Treasures: Fortune's Bones

His great grandfather, in 1910, found the skeleton in a boarded-up closet when he was renovating a Waterbury building.

NPR: Hidden Museum Treasures: Fortune's Bones

That's a massive skeleton to have in the closest, but it's a closet the players are trying to keep shut.

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