你们还来唱什么戏啊?
“Stop putting on a show.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I am so sorry. Wan is dead.”
你们还来 唱什么戏 啊?
“Stop putting on a show.”
亲家 小碗的事儿 我们也不想啊
“Xiao. We're sorry about Wan, too.”
“Stop putting on this pathetic, hypocritical show—it won't bring her back.”
In Chinese social interactions, calling someone's polite or apologetic behavior 'chang xi' expresses utmost disdain for what is seen as insincere face-work.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to put on a theatrical act; to play-act hypocritically
Literally means performing Chinese opera, but idiomatically denounces insincere emotional drama.
why bother doing something anymore
A rhetorical construction expressing exasperation and urging the listener to stop an unwelcome action.
Enhances the rhetorical indignation and bitter confrontational tone of the question.