You answered that you majored in course 2. It sounds like a secret code to outsiders.

你刚才回答你的专业是课程2。这在外人听起来就像是秘密代码一样。

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or whatever. Like, you know, you're speaking the secret code,

好像你在说密码一样，

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The passwords themselves were encrypted, meaning they couldn't be read without breaking the secret code that protected them.

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