你这话什么意思呀
“what exactly do you mean by that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
冯琳同志
“Comrade Feng Lin,”
你这话什么意思 呀
“what exactly do you mean by that?”
许主任
“Ms. Xu,”
“Are you insulting or accusing me? Explain yourself.”
In traditional institutional settings, overt hostility is avoided; instead, speakers question underlying meaning to signal boundary crossing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what do you mean? / what is the meaning of this?
Extremely frequent spoken chunk used to challenge someone's underlying motives or words.
these words / what was just said
Points back specifically to the statement that just caused friction.
Heightens emotional urgency and sharpness in an interrogative sentence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“what do you mean by that?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“what do you mean by that?”
“what do you mean by that?”
“What did he say? What does it mean? What does it mean?”
“what are you saying? Don't we have love between us?”