你开什么窗呀 你怀着孩子呢 不能吹风 我恶心
“Don't do that. You can't catch a cold now. I feel nauseous.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你干啥呀
“What's wrong?”
你 开什么窗 呀 你 怀着孩子 呢 不能 吹风 我 恶心
“Don't do that. You can't catch a cold now. I feel nauseous.”
你恶心也不能吹风啊
“But you need to close the window.”
“Close that window right now, you'll get sick! / I'm about to throw up, I need fresh air!”
In Traditional Chinese Medicine and folk belief, pregnant and postpartum women must strictly avoid cold wind ('chuifeng'), as it is believed to let pathogenic cold enter the body and cause lifelong ailments.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why on earth are you opening the window
Insert '什么' (what) between a verb and object in a V-O compound to express disapproval or annoyance at the action.
being pregnant; carrying a child
Used in everyday spoken Chinese to refer to someone's ongoing state of pregnancy.
to be exposed to the wind; to catch a draft
Often used negatively in health contexts to warn vulnerable people against getting chilled by the wind.
Softens the sharp rhetorical question slightly while maintaining an urgent, complaining tone among family.
Emphasizes the ongoing state of being pregnant as an obvious fact the listener should remember.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Could you open the window? It's stuffy.”
“Open the windows wider.”
“that they have nothing but the bare walls in their house.”
“We might come up short here.”
“What the...? Who opened the window? Close it, now!”
“If only I hadn't opened the windows and the door.”