这不有索道吗 你说什么呢
“We can take a cable car. What are you talking about?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“when you'll be back next time. Who goes hiking nowadays, Dad?”
这不 有索道吗 你说什么呢
“We can take a cable car. What are you talking about?”
索道
“Cable car?”
“Stop complaining about having to hike; we can just take the lift.”
Family members in China routinely skip elaborate polite hedges, directly countering each other's complaints with blunt rhetorical questions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't there... right here?
A spoken rhetorical opening used to point out an obvious fact or item that the interlocutor overlooked.
what are you talking about? / nonsense
A colloquial rebuttal used among close relations to dismiss what someone just said as silly or unjustified.
Forms a rhetorical question highlighting the obvious presence of the cable car.
Softens the interrogative slightly while adding an exasperated conversational tone.
