等着你来我家摁门铃吗
“Wait for you to ring my doorbell?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
等着你来 我家 摁门铃 吗
“Wait for you to ring my doorbell?”
我本来
“I was waiting for you to come to me.”
“If I hadn't showed up here, you would have harassed me at my own front door.”
Answering a question with a sarcastic 'Was I supposed to...' is a common pragmatic defense mechanism in spoken Chinese to deflect being seen as eager or submissive.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to ring the doorbell
A standard daily action chunk commonly used when talking about home visits.
to just wait around for [someone to do something]
Often paired with rhetorical questions to imply that passively waiting is an absurd course of action.
Converts the statement into a rhetorical question loaded with sarcastic disbelief.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I just don't want you waiting here.”
“I'll wait for you to come find me.”
“Didn't we agree you'd wait at home? Where did you go?”
“why would he come to your place?”
“Well, someone's waiting for me at home.”
“still waiting for me.”