他是不是脑子也抽风了呀
“Is he out of his mind too?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
师父 这里风浪大
“Mentor. The wind and waves are strong here.”
他 是不是 脑子 也 抽风 了呀
“Is he out of his mind too?”
人呢
“Where are they?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Colloquial Mandarin frequently uses medical or physiological metaphors like '抽风' (spasm/convulsion) to humorously or critically describe erratic thinking.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to lose one's mind / to act crazy or erratic
A highly colloquial, informal idiom used to criticize bizarre or irrational behavior.
is it or not / could it be that
Placed before a statement to form an interrogative guess or rhetorical challenge.
Softens the rhetorical question and expresses heightened bewilderment or exclamation.
Marks the change into a state of sudden erratic behavior.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Is there something wrong with his head?”
“- [sighs] He's up to something. - Excuse me?”
“Do you know he's completely lost his mind?”