客官 您开什么玩笑呢
“Sir, you must be joking.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
给你 给你 给你
“Here, here, here.”
客官 您 开什么玩笑 呢
“Sir, you must be joking.”
“We're just a small shop. Such a large silver ingot…”
“You can't be serious; our humble shop cannot possibly accept or break that massive piece of silver.”
Chinese service staff traditionally combine the deferential pronoun 'nin' and polite honorifics to object to an impossible customer demand without offending the patron.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
are you kidding; what a joke
Used to express disbelief or rejection when an interlocutor proposes something completely absurd or unworkable.
customer; honored guest
A traditional, historical service-industry honorific used by shopkeepers, innkeepers, and tavern servers.
Softens the interrogative remark, preventing an accusatory tone while maintaining deferential customer service.
