你要干什么 下水
“What are you doing? Going in the water.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你要干什么 下水
“What are you doing? Going in the water.”
你冷静一点
“Calm down.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In urgent emergencies, polite indirectness is dropped completely in Chinese, favoring rapid, punchy rhetorical questions to stop someone immediately.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what do you think you're doing?
Used as an abrupt, direct intervention to question someone's sudden or suspicious action.
go into the water
Literally enter water; can also colloquially mean getting involved in shady activities, but here it is purely physical.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What do you want? Put me down.”
“What are you doing? What are you doing?”
“What is your kid doing again?”
“What are you trying to do? Nothing.”
“What are you doing? Don't move.”
“What are you doing?”