你今天怎么这么失态啊
“(How could you lose your composure like that today?)”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
钱菲啊 钱菲
“(Qian Fei, oh, Qian Fei.)”
你 今天 怎么这么 失态 啊
“(How could you lose your composure like that today?)”
来了
“They are here.”
“What on earth happened to you? This is totally unlike you.”
Maintaining emotional composure and public dignity is prized in Chinese interpersonal relations; calling someone '失态' signifies that their lapse in composure was striking.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how come it is so... / why so...
Use this collocation to emphasize shock or exasperation at an extreme state or behavior.
lose one's composure / breach decorum
A formal term often used in spoken Chinese to critique someone acting out of control or forgetting proper manners.
Adds an exclamatory nuance, intensifying the speaker's bewilderment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I argued with Jing Yi today.”
“Seriously? What's wrong with this guy?”
“why are there so many people today?”
“What's going on with him? How is he this drunk already?”