生活英语|side-text 小窗口私信

Side-text means^{1 while you are texting or having an online conversation with a group of people, you also have a private conversation with someone in the group.}

Side-text指你在跟一群人发短信或者在线群聊的同时，跟群里的某个人私信的行为，也就是大家常说的小窗口私信。

For example:

I side-texted Vin to give me an excuse to get out of Jay's group message to hangout.

我跟Vin小窗口私信，让他帮我找个借口退出Jay群发邀约出游的信息小组。