你在跟我开玩笑呢吗
“Are you joking with me?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你知道你在说什么吗
“Do you know what you're saying?”
你在 跟我开玩笑呢吗
“Are you joking with me?”
我是认真的
“I'm serious.”
“You cannot possibly be serious right now; that makes no sense.”
Asking 'are you joking?' in Chinese often functions as a warning shot to give the listener a chance to walk back an absurd claim or inappropriate demand.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to joke / to kid
Can be used literally or rhetorically to denote that an idea or situation is preposterous.
to make a joke with someone / to kid someone
Standard conversational frame for questioning someone's sincerity.
Emphasizes the ongoing state or marks a rhetorical continuation of thought.
Turns the statement into a direct yes/no interrogative question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Are you joking?”
“Are you joking with us?”
“Are you kidding me?”
“is playing a joke on us?”