你提他娘干吗呀
“Why did you bring up his mother?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他就开始咳
“and he started coughing!”
你提他娘 干吗呀
“Why did you bring up his mother?”
“You can't upset the patient at a time like this.”
“Use your head! Why bring up his mother and upset him like that?”
Traditional Chinese medicine stresses that severe emotional disturbance (qiqing) damages bodily qi and exacerbates illness; visitors are expected to strictly avoid upsetting topics around patients.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why bring up... / what's the point of mentioning...
A highly colloquial pattern used to express dissatisfaction or blame someone for mentioning an inappropriate topic.
his mother
A colloquial and informal or dialectal way to refer to someone's mother.
Softens the blunt rhetorical reproach while intensifying the speaker's emotional bewilderment.
