这不是开国际玩笑吗
“Isn't this a joke?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
几时办过画展哪
“hold an art exhibition?”
这不是 开国际玩笑 吗
“Isn't this a joke?”
酒店现在盈利多少
“How much is the hotel's profit now?”
“This idea makes zero business sense and sounds completely absurd.”
Chinese business managers often use vivid rhetorical exaggerations like calling an idea an 'international joke' to immediately halt discussion on ideas they view as impractical.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
making a total joke / completely ridiculous
A popular hyperbolic idiom used rhetorically to dismiss an idea as wildly unrealistic or foolish.
isn't this...
A standard rhetorical question pattern used to emphasize the obviousness of a situation.
Converts the statement into a rhetorical question, reinforcing the speaker's disbelief.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I was just joking.”
“Aren't you just asking to be a laughingstock?”
“Are you kidding me? Weren't we supposed to play Xinpeng?”
“You should never be bothered with this. -Seriously, give it to me now. -I can manage.”
“Why are you making this kind of joke?”