这种情况不是开玩笑吗
“You can't be serious.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是说身体已经恢复了吗
“I thought you said he'd recovered?”
这种情况 不是开玩笑吗
“You can't be serious.”
恢复了
“He has.”
“This is completely absurd and irresponsible.”
Using negative rhetorical questions like 'isn't this...' is a standard conversational tactic in Chinese to condemn someone's judgment without having to present formal counter-evidence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't this ridiculous; isn't this a joke?
Use this rhetorical question to criticize an idea or situation as entirely impractical or ludicrous.
Turns the negative assertion into a biting rhetorical question.
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 joking?”
“Are you joking,”