干什么呢你这是 早就跟你说了
“What are you doing? I've told you”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
想给我买新衣服不好意思说
“He wants to buy me a new outfit but is too embarrassed to tell me.”
干什么呢你这是 早就跟你说了
“What are you doing? I've told you”
“Stop joking around and quit getting into my business!”
In Chinese romantic comedies, partners frequently disguise mutual attraction or shyness behind feigned annoyance and sharp boundary-policing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
What are you doing? / Cut it out.
Commonly employed to stop someone who is teasing or overstepping informal boundaries.
I already told you
Invoked defensively to show that the speaker's stance was already made clear in the past.
Infuses the rhetorical question with immediate, spontaneous pushback.
Reinforces that the boundary was already previously stated.