放着这么好的日子你不好好过 你想干啥呀你
“Why do you want to abandon such a good life? What do you want?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Sell the book, and all the money is yours.”
放着 这么好的 日子你 不好好过 你想干啥 呀你
“Why do you want to abandon such a good life? What do you want?”
“It's just a book. You wrote me to look like such a mess, and I didn't even get mad.”
“You have a comfortable life, stop acting crazy and ruining everything for us.”
Chinese culture places a high value on 'guo rizi' (steady domestic living); creating unnecessary risks or drama ('zheteng') is heavily criticized by family members.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to live peacefully and sensibly
Commonly used in domestic contexts to urge someone to settle down and stop making reckless decisions.
What on earth do you think you're doing?
A highly colloquial, emphatic rhetorical question expressing exasperation or challenge, typical of Northern spoken Chinese.
Softens phonetic transition while intensifying the speaker's emotional exasperation in a rhetorical question.
