你吵吵啥呀
“What're you yelling about?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谁打的
“Who did it?”
你 吵吵啥 呀
“What're you yelling about?”
不是 你告诉我谁打的
“Come on, tell me who hit you.”
“Calm down and stop making such a scene.”
Calling out someone's 'shouting' is a common rhetorical tactic to put them on the moral back foot for losing composure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to make a racket / to shout loudly
A highly colloquial, northern-flavored term referring to loud, disruptive arguing or yelling.
what (casual/dialectal)
A casual Northern alternative to '什么', frequently used in informal spoken complaints.
Softens the raw harshness of the rhetorical question while still signaling annoyance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why are you yelling?”
“♪ My dreams are not afraid to awaken; they continue to exist ♪ What are you doing? You guys are the noisiest. -Be careful. -Exactly. You guys are the noisiest.”
“What are you yelling about? I'll light it later if it's out.”
“What are you arguing about?”
“What are you yelling about? What happened?”